Senior Infrastructure Engineer (VMware)
Posted 1 day ago by 1764250897
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Infrastructure Engineer (VMware) involves managing and supporting VMware enterprise infrastructures, requiring expertise in various virtualization and cloud technologies. Candidates should possess hands-on experience with VMware products, including vSphere, NSX, and HCX, as well as strong troubleshooting and automation skills. The position is fully remote and seeks individuals with a minimum of four desired skill areas from a comprehensive list. VMware certifications are essential for this role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and support VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server environments.
- Oversee Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (VxRail & vSAN) management and upgrades.
- Implement and troubleshoot VMware NSX-T networking solutions.
- Deploy and operate VMware HCX for cloud migration and mobility.
- Utilize Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Work with VMware Aria Suite for observability, automation, and management.
- Integrate cloud and multi-cloud solutions using VMware Cloud Foundation.
- Ensure security, governance, and compliance within VMware environments.
- Develop automation scripts using languages like PowerCLI and Python.
- Support large enterprise production environments and manage incidents effectively.
- Communicate clearly with engineers, vendors, and stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- 4+ years of experience supporting VMware enterprise infrastructures.
- Deep hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server.
- Knowledge of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (VxRail & vSAN).
- Experience with VMware NSX-T networking and cloud migration tools.
- Familiarity with disaster recovery solutions like Site Recovery Manager.
- Proficiency in VMware Aria Suite for automation and management.
- Understanding of security and compliance frameworks in IT.
- Strong scripting skills in PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible.
- Experience with enterprise operations and ITSM tools like ServiceNow.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- VMware certifications such as VCP-DCV are required.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
10 x Fully Remote Roles available for engineers with at least 4 of the desired skill areas. Rate – Negotiable
Desired Skills :
- 1. Core Virtualization (vSphere Platform) Deep hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server (VCSA). Lifecycle management: installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching using Lifecycle Manager (vLCM). Strong troubleshooting of VM performance, host issues, DRS, HA, vMotion, snapshots, datastore problems, and host networking. Familiarity with VMware validated architectures and best practices for scalable enterprise deployments. Experience with certificates, identity federation, SSO, and vCenter topology design.
- 2. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (VxRail & vSAN) Hands-on experience with Dell EMC VxRail appliance management and upgrades using VxRail Manager/Lifecycle. Strong understanding of vSAN (Original vSAN, ESA, OSA) including: disk groups, policies, FTT, RAID1/5/6, dedupe & compression performance tuning and fault-domain design stretched clusters & 2-node ROBO sites Ability to diagnose vSAN performance, resync issues, capacity, and health alarms. Knowledge of hardware compatibility rules (HCL), firmware baselines, and VxRail-vSphere version alignment.
- 3. Networking & NSX Experience with VMware NSX-T (now Broadcom NSX): Logical routing, segments, T1/T0 gateways Distributed firewall, micro-segmentation policies Load balancing & NAT NSX edge clusters & transport zones Understanding of underlay networking concepts: VLANs, LACP, MTU, BGP/OSPF basics.
- 4. Cloud Migration & Mobility (HCX) Experience deploying and operating VMware HCX for: bulk migrations vMotion across sites WAN optimization network extension Ability to troubleshoot HCX tunnels, appliances, mobility failures, latency issues, and interconnect problems.
- 5. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Skilled with Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vSphere Replication: recovery plans, protection groups, failover/failback array-based replication integration Experience with stretched clusters, active/active architectures, and DR testing.
- 6. Observability, Automation & Management (Aria Suite / vRealize) Experience with VMware Aria (formerly vRealize): Aria Operations (vROps) Dashboards, alerts, capacity planning, rightsizing. Aria Automation / vRealize Automation (vRA) Blueprints, workflows, cloud templates, IaaS provisioning. Aria Orchestrator (vRO) Workflow automation and integrations with APIs. Aria Logs / Log Insight Log correlation, troubleshooting, event analytics.
- 7. Cloud & Multi-Cloud Integration Understanding of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) architecture and lifecycle. Familiarity with VMware on Public Clouds (VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine). Basic understanding of SDDC Manager, WLDs, edge clusters, and workload placement.
- 8. Security, Governance, Compliance Knowledge of: vSphere Hardening Guide certificate management role-based access control (RBAC) NSX micro-segmentation Ability to support audits, compliance frameworks, change control, and secure configurations.
- 9. Scripting, Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code Strong experience with at least one automation language: PowerCLI Python Ansible Comfortable with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment processes. Ability to create reusable scripts for reporting, remediation, and provisioning.
- 10. Hardware, Storage & Ecosystem Knowledge Familiar with Dell, HPE, Lenovo server platforms + iDRAC/iLO configurations. Understanding of SAN concepts (FC, iSCSI), multipath, NFS, VMFS, vVols. Knowledge of switch platforms relevant to VMware/NSX (Arista, Cisco, Dell). Experience with firmware/driver alignment and HCL validation.
- 11. Enterprise Operations & Support Experience supporting large enterprise production environments. Strong incident, problem, change, and crisis management skills. Ability to analyse root cause, create detailed reports, and propose long-term fixes. Competent with ServiceNow or similar ITSM tooling.
- 12. Soft Skills Ability to work under pressure (critical infrastructure, financial sector, etc.). Strong documentation skills. Clear communicator with engineers, vendors, and senior stakeholders. Ability to work independently or as part of a global support team.
Qualifications
4+ years supporting VMware enterprise infrastructures. VMware certifications: VCP-DCV (must) VCAP-DCV Deploy/Design (ideal) VMware Specialist – vSAN NSX-T VCP-NV VxRail Certifications / Dell Proven