Senior VMware Engineer

Company: People Impact

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Business Type: Startup

Company Type: Product

Business Model: B2B

Funding Stage: Pre-seed

Industry: Information Technology

Salary Range: ₹ 18-20 Lacs PA

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior VMware (VCF) Engineer with extensive enterprise virtualization experience to design, implement, operate, and optimize VMware Cloud Foundation environments. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise across VMware VCF, vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, SDDC, and HCI, along with strong experience in infrastructure automation, security, disaster recovery, and enterprise platform operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical expert for infrastructure projects involving VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, and SDDC platforms.
• Design, deploy, configure, upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot VCF environments, workload domains, vCenter, ESXi hosts, vSAN clusters, and NSX-T networking.
• Manage VCF Lifecycle Manager (LCM), platform upgrades, patching, configuration, and workload domain operations.
• Establish and maintain enterprise VMware virtualization standards, security hardening, operational procedures, and best practices.
• Design and support disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, performance optimization, and high-availability solutions.
• Implement and manage vSAN storage policies, HCI environments, storage capacity, and performance optimization.
• Configure and troubleshoot NSX-T distributed networking, security policies, microsegmentation, and virtual network services.
• Integrate VMware VCF with enterprise hardware, HCI platforms, automation tools, identity services, and public/hybrid cloud platforms.
• Monitor infrastructure health and performance, identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvements to scalability, reliability, availability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, networking, security, systems, and cloud teams to ensure infrastructure solutions meet business, security, and compliance requirements.
• Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, PowerCLI, Bash, and/or Python to improve operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership, troubleshooting support, documentation, and knowledge transfer to infrastructure teams.
• Mentor junior engineers on VCF architecture, VMware best practices, troubleshooting, and operational processes.
• Participate in technology evaluations and maintain awareness of VMware/Broadcom product roadmaps, licensing changes, and virtualization industry trends
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/MS in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting VMware vSphere environments in enterprise-scale deployments.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, including lifecycle management and workload domain operations.
• 5+ years of experience with NSXT, including distributed networking, security policies, and microsegmentation.
• Strong experience with vSAN deployment, storage policy management, and HCI capacity planning.
• Proven background supporting/administering Windows and/or Linux.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise directory and authentication services (AD, DNS, DHCP, MFA, Group Policy, etc.)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• VMware certifications such as VCPDCV, VCAPDCV, VCPNV, or VCF Specialist.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Powershell, PowerCLI, bash shell and/or python.
• Experience with Citrix technologies (Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, XenApp/XenDesktop).
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud VMware platforms (VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes platforms (Tanzu, AKS, EKS) within VCF environments.
• Experience with enterprise hardware platforms (Dell VxRail, HPE Synergy, Cisco ,UCS).
• Experience with Proxmox VE or related open-source virtualization platforms.