Senior VMware Architect: Enterprise Virtualization

Insight Global; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior VMware Architect/Engineer to lead architecture, modernization, and optimization of a large-scale enterprise virtualization environment for a major investment banking client. The role requires hands-on implementation and collaboration with infrastructure, cloud, storage, networking, and security teams.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years of infra engineering, 8+ years VMware architecture, extensive vSphere/vCenter/Cloud Foundation experience, and strong DR

Qualifications

• 12+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• 8+ years of VMware engineering and architecture experience.
• Deep expertise with VMware vSphere 8.x, ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Strong experience with VMware Aria Operations.
• Advanced Windows Server expertise including AD, DNS, and DHCP.
• Experience supporting NetApp, Dell PowerScale, SAN, and NAS environments.
• Disaster Recovery experience with Zerto and/or SRM.
• Experience supporting large‑scale, mission‑critical enterprise environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning experience.
• Experience leading platform modernization initiatives.
• PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform experience.
• VMware NSX and/or vSAN expertise.
• Azure and AWS cloud experience.
• Financial services, banking, or other highly regulated industry experience.
• VMware certifications such as VCP, VCAP, or VCDX

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and engineering efforts across the enterprise VMware platform.
• Manage and optimize VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
• Support VMware Aria Operations for monitoring, performance management, and capacity planning.
• Drive platform modernization and infrastructure lifecycle initiatives.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability assessments.
• Design and support enterprise disaster recovery solutions utilizing Zerto and/or VMware SRM.
• Partner with application, storage, networking, and cloud teams to support critical business platforms.
• Support Windows Server infrastructure including Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Manage NetApp, Dell PowerScale, SAN, and NAS storage environments.
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis efforts for complex infrastructure incidents.
• Develop infrastructure standards, best practices, and architectural roadmaps.
• Automate operational processes wherever possible using scripting and infrastructure‑as‑code tools.

Skills

VMware architecture

vSphere 8.x

vCenter

VMware Aria Operations

Windows Server AD/DNS/DHCP

Disaster recovery planning

Scripting (PowerShell)

Automation (Ansible)

Terraform

Azure & AWS

Platform modernization

VMware NSX/vSAN

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

VMware certifications (VCP/VCAP/VCDX)

Tools

VMware Aria Operations

VMware Cloud Foundation

NetApp

Dell PowerScale

Zerto

SRM

NSX

vSAN

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior VMware Architect/Engineer to lead architecture, modernization, and optimization of a large-scale enterprise virtualization environment for a major investment banking client. The role requires hands-on implementation and collaboration with infrastructure, cloud, storage, networking, and security teams.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years of infra engineering, 8+ years VMware architecture, extensive vSphere/vCenter/Cloud Foundation experience, and strong DR