Infrastructure VMware Engineer

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc.; South Carolina; Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 84,000; Part time

Job summary

Alliance of Professionals & Consultants, Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure VMware Engineer for a 3+ month hybrid role in Greenville, SC (3 days in office).

You will operate, evolve, and optimize infrastructure services to ensure high availability, security, and performance across the stack. You will lead complex VMware operations, drive automation, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams, service partners, and security stakeholders to deliver reliable production services and continuous

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise ops.
• Strong VMware administration including availability, performance, capacity, lifecycle and recovery.
• Hands-on experience with IaC, CI/CD, GitOps, scripting, and configuration automation.
• Experience with backup software, disaster recovery planning, and DR testing.
• Experience with ITSM processes handling incidents, problems and requests; strong root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Security practices including hardening, patching, and vulnerability remediation.

Responsibilities

• Operate, evolve, and improve infrastructure components and services.
• Lead complex infrastructure transformations, deployments, upgrades, migrations and lifecycle activities.
• Administer and optimize VMware environments and related compute/storage/network integrations.
• Manage incidents, problems and change activities with SLA alignment.
• Coordinate with vendors/partners on platform support, patches, capacity, and lifecycle requirements.
• Contribute to automation, standards, and operational practices; document procedures and references.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

VMware expertise

Incident management

Automation

Security practices

Documentation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Veeam

Rubrik

ServiceNow

CMDB

SSH

PuTTY

Job description

Job Title: Infrastructure VMware Engineer

Type of Engagement: 3+ month contract (Not open to 3rd party C2C consultants. Visa sponsorship is not available)

Work Location: Hybrid position in Greenville, SC (3days in office)

Job Overview: As an Infrastructure Engineer supporting DAP, you will operate, evolve, and continuously improve infrastructure services that enable reliable business operations and digital transformation. You will help ensure high levels of availability, performance, security, resilience, and scalability across the infrastructure lifecycle. You will provide recognized technical expertise, influence architecture and operational decisions, and lead complex infrastructure changes from planning through production. The role requires strong ownership, sound judgment, and close collaboration with cross‑functional teams, service partners, security stakeholders, and operational support groups.

Essential Job Responsibilities: Infrastructure Design, Engineering & Lifecycle Management. Operate, and continuously improve infrastructure components, including servers, storage, virtualization platforms, network‑connected services, middleware, and supporting technologies. Lead complex infrastructure transformations, deployments, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle activities while managing risks, dependencies, quality, and delivery commitments. Define and promote infrastructure architecture choices, technical standards, and operational practices that support consistency, scalability, resilience, and long‑term maintainability. Perform capacity planning, performance optimization, technology lifecycle management, and obsolescence remediation to support business growth and platform stability. Maintain accurate architecture references, technical procedures, operating standards, and knowledge articles. Virtualization, Backup & Recovery. Administer, troubleshoot, and optimize VMware virtualization environments and the supporting compute, storage, and network integrations. Operate and improve enterprise backup software and recovery services, including backup policy administration, job monitoring, failure remediation, restore validation, retention, and reporting. Strengthen backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to improve service robustness, recoverability, and business continuity. Execute infrastructure recovery tests and use the results to close technical or operational gaps. Coordinate with vendors and service partners on platform support, defects, patches, upgrades, capacity, and product lifecycle requirements. Service Management & Production Support. Manage infrastructure Incidents, Problems, and Requests from intake through resolution, ensuring clear ownership, timely communication, accurate records, and alignment with service‑level expectations. Lead response to major incidents and complex technical issues, coordinate technical recovery activities, and communicate status and business impact to stakeholders. Perform root cause analysis for significant or recurring issues and drive sustainable corrective and preventive actions through completion. Provide Level 3 technical support to internal teams, resolve escalated issues, and deliver practical guidance for complex infrastructure problems. Contribute to change management, release readiness, maintenance planning, operational handoffs, and production validation. Participate in on‑call or after‑hours support when required for critical incidents, maintenance, deployments, or recovery activities. Security, Risk & Operational Excellence. Embed security compliance and technical risk management into infrastructure operations through hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation, control implementation, and adherence to internal policies. Monitor platform health, availability, capacity, backup status, alerts, and service trends to identify risks before they affect the business. Identify and implement opportunities for automation, standardization, and modernization that reduce operational complexity and improve service quality. Use Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, automation, and GitOps practices where appropriate to improve repeatability, control, and traceability. Create meaningful operational measures and service reports that support prioritization, decision‑making, and continuous improvement. Collaboration & Technical Leadership. Collaborate across infrastructure, security, application, architecture, service management, and business teams to translate needs into supportable technical solutions. Provide technical input on feasibility, risk, dependencies, tradeoffs, support requirements, and implementation approaches. Mentor less‑experienced engineers through technical guidance, structured troubleshooting, reviews, and knowledge transfer. Communicate complex infrastructure topics clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Required Skills & Experience: Technologies & Technical Knowledge. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Working understanding of Terraform and Ansible, along with DevOps best practices for automation, version control, repeatable deployments, and infrastructure lifecycle management. Backup Technologies: Hands‑on knowledge of Veeam and Rubrik backup technologies, including backup operations, monitoring, restore activities, troubleshooting, and recovery validation. ServiceNow and CMDB: Practical experience using ServiceNow (SNOW) and maintaining accurate Configuration Management Database (CMDB) records for infrastructure assets, services, relationships, incidents, changes, problems, and requests. Server Infrastructure and Out‑of‑Band Management: Experience supporting Lenovo, Dell, and HP server infrastructure, including out‑of‑band (OOB) management, hardware health monitoring, and firmware updates. Remote Administration: Working knowledge of SSH and PuTTY for secure remote administration, troubleshooting, and infrastructure support. Firewall Fundamentals: General understanding of firewall concepts, network flows, ports, protocols, access rules, and troubleshooting connectivity issues. Certificate Management and Requests: Basic knowledge of SSL/TLS certificates and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including certificate requests, issuance, renewal, deployment, validation, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management across on‑premises and cloud infrastructure. 5+ years of professional infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or enterprise operations experience, including ownership of complex production services. Strong hands‑on experience with enterprise server, storage, virtualization, and operating system technologies. Advanced experience administering and troubleshooting VMware environments, including platform availability, performance, capacity, lifecycle, and recovery considerations. Hands‑on experience with enterprise backup software, backup job operations, restore execution, retention management, and disaster recovery planning. Practical experience managing Incidents, Problems, and Requests in a structured IT service management environment. Demonstrated ability to lead major incident response, root cause analysis, recurring‑issue elimination, and durable remediation. Experience with infrastructure security practices, including hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation, access controls, and operational risk management. Working knowledge of network protocols, infrastructure architecture, systems integration, and deployment practices. Experience with automation and modern engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, scripting, and configuration automation. Ability to maintain high‑quality technical documentation, operating procedures, architecture references, and support knowledge.

Job Requisition # 40493 #LI-JN1 A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role is $59.00 - $61.00 per hour. The disclosed pay range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case, such as skills and experience levels.

APC is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status.