Vmware Consultant

The Virtualization Platform Engineer is responsible for the implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise virtualization platforms, with a primary focus on VMware technologies such as ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, VMware Aria Suite, SRM, and RP4VM. This role ensures that virtualization services are highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient, while being optimized for performance and capacity. The engineer collaborates closely with infrastructure, network, storage, security, application, and cloud teams to deliver reliable virtualization and hybrid cloud services. Emphasis is placed on driving automation, standardization, monitoring, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

- Implement, administer, and maintain VMware ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN environments.
- Manage VMware cluster configurations including HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, networking, and storage integration.
- Oversee and optimize VMware Aria / vRealize Suite components such as Aria Automation, Aria Operations, Log Insight, and Orchestrator.
- Develop automation scripts and workflows using PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, REST APIs, and VMware Orchestrator.
- Configure monitoring systems, dashboards, alerts, reports, and capacity models utilizing Aria Operations / vROps.
- Conduct infrastructure capacity planning covering CPU, memory, storage, network, and cluster resources.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to virtualization, storage, networking, and performance.
- Manage and maintain disaster recovery solutions using VMware SRM and Dell RecoverPoint for VMs (RP4VM).
- Perform disaster recovery testing, failover/failback validation, and recovery readiness activities.
- Lead technical activities related to VMware upgrades, migrations, infrastructure expansions, hardware refreshes, and platform lifecycle management.
- Develop and maintain technical standards, operational procedures, documentation, and runbooks.
- Support ITIL-aligned Incident, Problem, Change, Capacity, and Availability Management processes.
- Collaborate effectively with Network, Storage, Security, Windows, Linux, Backup, Application, and Cloud teams.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other virtualization and infrastructure engineers.
- Evaluate emerging virtualization, automation, private cloud, and hybrid cloud technologies.

Required Qualifications

- 3 to 5+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise virtualization and infrastructure.
- Extensive expertise with VMware ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN platforms.
- Strong working knowledge of VMware Aria / vRealize Suite.
- Experience managing VMware SRM and Dell RecoverPoint for VMs (RP4VM).
- Proven skills in troubleshooting VMware infrastructure and optimizing performance.
- Experience in infrastructure capacity planning and resource optimization.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting using PowerShell/PowerCLI, Python, REST APIs, or similar tools.
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking, storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery concepts.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.
- Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple teams.
- Experience delivering complex virtualization infrastructure projects and migrations.
- Familiarity with ITIL Incident, Problem, Change, and Configuration Management processes.

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of Azure, Azure Stack, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Citrix, cloud computing, and hybrid cloud architectures is advantageous.

This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge virtualization and hybrid cloud technologies within a collaborative and dynamic environment, supporting continuous improvement and innovation in enterprise infrastructure.