Senior VMware Administrator: vSphere Mastery & DR

NorthBay, LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthBay, LLC is seeking a skilled VMware Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize our virtualized infrastructure in the UAE. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of hands-on experience in VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server.

You will provision and manage VMs, monitor performance and capacity, and implement robust backup and DR strategies. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and adherence to security practices are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of VMware administration or virtualization infrastructure experience.
• Experience managing VMware environments in an enterprise or data center environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server.
• Provision, configure, and manage virtual machines according to business requirements.
• Monitor VMware infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and resource utilization.
• Perform virtual machine administration including deployment, migration, cloning, snapshots, and resource allocation.
• Implement and maintain backup and disaster recovery strategies for virtual machines.
• Perform VMware infrastructure upgrades, patches, and configuration changes.
• Troubleshoot virtualization related issues and resolve performance, availability, and connectivity problems.
• Manage VMware clusters, resource pools, datastores, and virtual networking.
• Monitor storage, CPU, memory, and network utilization and perform performance tuning when required.
• Maintain documentation of VMware infrastructure, configurations, procedures, and operational activities.
• Implement security best practices and access controls across the virtual environment.
• Collaborate with Linux, Windows, Network, Storage, and Security teams to support enterprise infrastructure

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter Server

VM provisioning

Backup & DR

Performance tuning

VMware networking

PowerCLI

VCP certification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

PowerCLI

Job description

NorthBay, LLC is seeking a skilled VMware Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize our virtualized infrastructure in the UAE. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of hands-on experience in VMware environments, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server.

You will provision and manage VMs, monitor performance and capacity, and implement robust backup and DR strategies. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and adherence to security practices are essential.