Sr VMware VCF Engineer

Weekday AI (YC W21); Hyderabad; On-site; INR 700,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced Senior VMware (VCF) Engineer with 8+ years of hands‑on VMware expertise. You will design, deploy, and manage VMware Cloud Foundation environments, vSphere, and vCenter across enterprise data centers, while ensuring high availability, performance, and security.

You will lead upgrades, patching, migrations, and lifecycle management, collaborate with storage, networking, and security teams, and drive automation initiatives to improve reliability and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in VMware administration, virtualization, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
• Advanced experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server.
• Strong understanding of HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, templates, and resource management.
• Experience with automation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments.
• Administer and maintain VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter infrastructure across enterprise environments.
• Manage VMware clusters, hosts, VMs, resource pools, templates, and virtual networking.
• Perform VMware upgrades, patching, migrations, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor health, capacity, availability, and performance across VMware environments.
• Troubleshoot complex issues related to vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, clusters, networking, storage, and VMs.
• Implement and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Support workload domains, VCF components, and infrastructure services per requirements.
• Collaborate with storage, networking, security, cloud, and app teams to resolve dependencies.
• Perform root-cause analysis for recurring incidents and implement long-term solutions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure documentation, standards, runbooks.
• Support capacity planning, optimization, and resource utilization initiatives.
• Participate in automation and process improvements to increase efficiency.
• Ensure VMware environments meet security, compliance, and standards.
• Provide mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

VMware admin

VCF expertise

vSphere

vCenter

HA/DRS/vMotion

Infrastructure design

Troubleshooting

Automation scripting

Tools

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter

Automation (Ansible/PowerShell)

Job description

Job Description

This role is for one of the Weekdays clients

Salary range: Rs 70,000,000 - Rs 200,000,000 (ie INR 7-20 LPA)

Experience: 8+ yrs

Location: Hyderabad

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experiencedSenior VMware (VCF) Engineerwith 8+ years of expertise in VMware infrastructure, virtualization, and enterprise cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience withVMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware vSphere, and VMware vCenter, along with a solid understanding of data center operations, infrastructure management, automation, and troubleshooting.

This role is suited for a technically strong professional who can design, implement, administer, and optimize VMware environments while ensuring high availability, performance, security, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manageVMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)environments.
• Administer and maintainVMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenterinfrastructure across enterprise environments.
• Manage VMware clusters, hosts, virtual machines, resource pools, templates, and virtual networking.
• Perform VMware infrastructure upgrades, patching, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
• Monitor system health, capacity, availability, and performance across VMware environments.
• Troubleshoot complex issues related to vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, clusters, networking, storage, and virtual machines.
• Implement and maintain high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions for virtualized workloads.
• Support workload domains, VCF components, and infrastructure services in accordance with operational requirements.
• Collaborate with storage, networking, security, cloud, and application teams to resolve infrastructure dependencies and issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis for recurring incidents and implement long-term corrective solutions.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure documentation, configuration standards, operational procedures, and technical runbooks.
• Support capacity planning, infrastructure optimization, and resource utilization initiatives.
• Participate in infrastructure automation and process improvements to increase operational efficiency.
• Ensure VMware environments adhere to enterprise security, compliance, and infrastructure standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers when required.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 8+ years of experiencein VMware administration, virtualization, infrastructure engineering, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise withVMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
• Advanced experience withVMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server.
• Strong understanding of VMware clusters, HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, templates, and resource management.
• Experience with VMware networking, virtual switches, distributed switches, and enterprise infrastructure connectivity.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization concepts, compute, storage, networking, and data center architecture.
• Experience performing VMware upgrades, patching, migrations, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to resolve complex infrastructure issues.
• Experience with monitoring, capacity management, performance optimization, and availability management.
• Understanding of backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability concepts.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional infrastructure teams.
• VMware certifications such asVCP, VCAP, or VCDXare desirable.
• Experience with automation, scripting, or infrastructure-as-code tools is an added advantage.
• Strong commitment to infrastructure reliability, operational excellence, security, and continuous improvement.