Role Overview:This role is for a VMware Subject Matter Expert (SME) with strong L3 administration and engineering expertise. The individual will be responsible for managing and supporting mission-critical enterprise VMware environments, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and optimal performance across the vSphere suite, DELL, and HPE hardware. The role involves automation, cloud integration, and cross-functional teamwork.
Key Responsibilities:- Provide technical support for mission-critical enterprise VMware environments and maintain SLAs.
- Administer and manage large-scale VMware environments including VCF, VMware vSphere, and Disaster Recovery Solutions.
- Design, configure, and maintain ESXi hosts, clusters, and resource pools.
- Perform Lifecycle Management of DELL/HPE ESXi hardware.
- Plan and execute VM migrations using VMware HCX (vMotion, Bulk Migration, Cold Migration, Replication Assisted vMotion).
- Optimize virtual infrastructure performance, capacity, and scalability.
- Implement high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, including Zerto, aligned to RPO/RTO requirements.
- Configure and manage disaster recovery technologies (replication, failover, failback) and execute DR testing.
- Ensure business continuity across critical applications and infrastructure platforms.
- Integrate VMware platforms with enterprise storage (SAN/NAS, vSAN) and manage storage provisioning, replication, and performance tuning.
- Ensure alignment of virtual infrastructure with enterprise network architecture.
- Support vulnerability remediation and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC-driven scans) and maintain adherence to enterprise security policies.
- Produce and maintain definitive technical blueprints, architecture diagrams, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Participate in on-call rotation and provide 24x7 production support.
- Utilize Aria Ops for monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI) to automate provisioning, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement long-term corrective actions.
- Execute infrastructure changes in accordance with enterprise change management processes, document design decisions, and participate in CAB reviews.
- Support audit requests and regulatory compliance requirements.
Required Skills:- VMware Subject Matter Expert (SME) with L3 administration and engineering expertise across vSphere suite.
- Strong knowledge of DELL & HPE hardware devices.
- Advanced knowledge of VMware components: HCX, HA, DRS, vMotion, Distributed Switches.
- Experience with failover mechanisms and disaster recovery replication topologies, specifically Zerto.
- Hands-on experience building ESXI infrastructure workflows and day-to-day operation tasks using PowerCLI and Ansible.
- Practical working knowledge of cloud fundamentals, focusing on hybrid infrastructure.
- Proficiency with Aria Ops for monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI).
- Proven track record of cross-functional teamwork with network, compute, and application stakeholders.
Qualifications:Preferred Skills:- Digital : VMWare~VMware vSphere expertise.
