Senior Virtualization Engineer – VMware & Cloud Infra Lead

RTD - Regional Transportation District of Denver, CO (RTD); United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

The Regional Transportation District (RTD) seeks a Senior Virtualization Engineer to design, implement, and maintain VMware-based environments, NSX security, and storage integrations in a large enterprise. You will serve as the SME for virtualization, lead automation efforts, and collaborate across IT teams to ensure reliable operations.

Candidates should have 5+ years in VMware vSphere with Aria/VCF, extensive Linux/Windows Server experience, scripting skills, and a bachelor’s degree preferred.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in the design and operational support of VMware vSphere environments using VMware Aria Suite (formerly vRealize) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including hands-on administration of host servers, storage (SAN/vSAN) and network security/firewalls (NSX).
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience implementing and maintaining Linux and Microsoft server operating systems.
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience providing virtualization platform administration and related tools such as NSX, Aria, vRA, vSAN, and vSphere.
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience providing advanced scripting.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or similar discipline.

Responsibilities

• Virtualization Administration Designs and implements VMware-based and other virtualization platform environments and any supporting tools and applications necessary to ensure industry best practices are followed.
• Acts as the subject matter expert in all deployed virtual environments and technologies and the responsible escalation point for support issues in the enterprise environment.
• Defines and continuously improves processes and procedures to support a fully managed virtual environment and automates processes whenever possible.
• Ensures full use and deployment of all beneficial technologies in the virtualization stack, including hyper-converged systems, software defined networking, storage integrations, cloud solutions and management options.
• All job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

VMware vSphere

NSX Security

Aria / vRealize

Linux Administration

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT

Tools

NSX

Aria Suite

vRA

vSAN

VCF

PowerShell

Job description

The Regional Transportation District (RTD) seeks a Senior Virtualization Engineer to design, implement, and maintain VMware-based environments, NSX security, and storage integrations in a large enterprise. You will serve as the SME for virtualization, lead automation efforts, and collaborate across IT teams to ensure reliable operations.

Candidates should have 5+ years in VMware vSphere with Aria/VCF, extensive Linux/Windows Server experience, scripting skills, and a bachelor’s degree preferred.