Senior VMWare Virtualization Architect/Engineer

Job description

Responsibilities & Qualifications RESPONSIBILITIES: The ​Senior VMWare Virtualization Architect/Engineer is expected to be able to accomplish the following: - Define reference architectures and multiyear roadmaps for vSpherebased platforms (onprem and hybrid), including ESXi clusters, vCenter, vSAN, and NSXbased network/security services. - Engineer highly available clusters, resource pools, and workload domains; design standard builds, host profiles, and image management; implement automation for provisioning, patching, and configuration drift remediation. - Architect and operate NSX (distributed firewall, micro segmentation, overlay/underlay integration, load balancing) to meet DIA security objectives and enclave separation requirements. - Integrate with enterprise services (INFOBLOX, ICAM services, PKI, DNS, NTP, SIEM) and extend to VMware Cloud / hyperscalers where applicable; leverage HCX / migration tooling to modernize and consolidate workloads. - Establish SLOs, conduct performance baselining, rightsize clusters, forecast capacity (CPU/Mem/IOPS), and optimize storage/policy placement (vSAN Storage Policies). - Design multisite replication, stretched clusters, and DR plans u...