OverviewPOSITION SUMMARYBayview is seeking an experienced
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (VCF/VMware) to provide hands-on engineering and technical leadership across our enterprise virtualization, compute, and data center infrastructure.
This role requires strong experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, NSX, SDDC Manager, VCF Operations, Cisco UCS, and Cisco Intersight. The engineer will support infrastructure design, implementation, lifecycle management, capacity planning, automation, migrations, disaster recovery, security remediation, and complex troubleshooting.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Engineer, configure, upgrade, and support enterprise VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments, including ESXi, vCenter, SDDC Manager, NSX, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation.
- Maintain highly available VMware environments and manage HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, host profiles, templates, and resource allocation.
- Lead VCF lifecycle activities, including upgrades, patching, compatibility validation, firmware coordination, and remediation.
- Design, configure, and support Cisco UCS X-Series/UCS 9508 infrastructure using Cisco Intersight, including Fabric Interconnects, service profiles, vNICs/vHBAs, VLANs, VSANs, firmware, and LAN/SAN connectivity.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across virtualization, compute, network, SAN, storage, and hardware infrastructure.
- Lead data center infrastructure initiatives, including deployments, migrations, hardware refreshes, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and decommissioning.
- Partner with Network, Storage, Security, DevOps, Backup, Database, and Application teams on infrastructure projects and operational issues.
- Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and capacity and proactively identify bottlenecks, risks, and optimization opportunities.
- Support infrastructure security hardening, CIS benchmark compliance, vulnerability remediation, access controls, and configuration standards.
- Support disaster recovery infrastructure, recovery testing, and integration with backup technologies such as Rubrik, Veeam, or Commvault.
- Provide Level 3/4 escalation support, lead root-cause analysis, and develop technical standards, architecture diagrams, procedures, and troubleshooting runbooks.
- Participate in after-hours maintenance and on-call escalation as required.
QUALIFICATIONS- 7+ years of enterprise infrastructure, virtualization, compute, or data center engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
- Experience with SDDC Manager, NSX, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation
- Strong hands-on experience with Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight
- Experience supporting enterprise data center infrastructure, including compute, networking, SAN, storage, and hardware
- Experience with infrastructure upgrades, migrations, lifecycle management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and complex troubleshooting
- Understanding of infrastructure security, hardening, vulnerability remediation, and high-availability practices
- Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
SKILLS- VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, SDDC Manager, NSX, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation
- Cisco UCS X-Series, UCS 9508, Fabric Interconnects, Cisco Intersight, service profiles, vNICs, vHBAs, VLANs, and VSANs
- Data center engineering, lifecycle management, capacity planning, infrastructure automation, migrations, and decommissioning
- High availability, performance analysis, disaster recovery, security hardening, vulnerability remediation, and root-cause analysis
- Architecture diagrams, engineering standards, build documents, operational procedures, and troubleshooting runbooks
LOCATION AND COMPENSATION- The role will be located in Coral Gables, FL office and will be hybrid (Tues - Thurs on-site).
- The compensation will be based on previous years of experience and qualifications.
*Salary may vary based on work experience, market conditions, location, and qualifications/training.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENTThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to handle, touch or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms. The employee is rarely required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
