Senior VMware & Azure Virtualization Architect

VMGTS; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Management Solutions in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Enterprise Virtualization Engineer with 10+ years of experience to architect, optimize, and maintain VMware and Microsoft Azure environments. The role collaborates with security, networking, and IT teams to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will lead on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments, implement automation with PowerShell and ESXCLI, and provide Tier 3 support while guiding migrations and upgrades.

Qualifications

• 10 years of overall related experience supporting VMware and Microsoft Azure environments.
• Senior-level hands-on VMware and Azure engineering and administration skills, including infrastructure as a service and platform as a service.
• Ability to architect, engineer, optimize, maintain, and administer virtual infrastructure independently and as part of a team.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft and VMware technologies across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Strong PowerShell scripting and VMware ESXCLI automation skills.
• Experience with Azure Site Recovery, Microsoft Entra ID, and Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics.
• Experience configuring advanced VMware services and settings.
• Strong technical documentation, troubleshooting, and customer communication skills.
• Limited substitution of Hyper-V and AWS experience may be considered for portions of the VMware and Azure experience requirements.
• Relevant VMware certification, including previously earned VMware Certified Professional credentials.
• Relevant Microsoft role-based certifications; previously earned MCSE credentials are also valued.
• ITIL training or certification.
• Experience supporting secure enterprise environments; an active security clearance is preferred.
• Customer-facing experience at all organizational levels.
• IT service management experience, particularly with BMC Helix ITSM or Remedy environments.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 and Exchange.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain on-premises VMware vSphere environments and Microsoft Azure infrastructure using vendor best practices.
• Perform technical planning, systems integration, verification and validation, and cost, risk, supportability, and effectiveness analyses.
• Engineer virtual machines, platform services, tools, and related infrastructure for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Administer clustered VMware environments and associated Azure components, settings, and services.
• Troubleshoot connectivity, management, performance, and availability issues, including critical outages.
• Recommend improvements to virtual infrastructure reliability and performance.
• Provide Tier 3 virtualization support to the IT service desk.
• Support infrastructure migrations and upgrades, including platform upgrades, on-premises-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud migrations, and related operating system and database changes.
• Document platform processes, procedures, and architecture in a shared document repository.
• Collaborate with other technical teams and communicate clearly with clients, peers, and leadership.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Azure

PowerShell scripting

VMware ESXCLI automation

Hybrid cloud architectures

Troubleshooting & performance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline

Equivalent documented experience

Tools

VMware ESXi

Azure Monitor

Azure Site Recovery

Entra ID / Azure AD

Job description

Vanguard Management Solutions in Washington, DC is seeking a Senior Enterprise Virtualization Engineer with 10+ years of experience to architect, optimize, and maintain VMware and Microsoft Azure environments. The role collaborates with security, networking, and IT teams to deliver secure, scalable infrastructure.

You will lead on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments, implement automation with PowerShell and ESXCLI, and provide Tier 3 support while guiding migrations and upgrades.