Senior VMware Engineer: High Availability & Hybrid Cloud

Compunnel, Inc. (old); Irving (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel, Inc. seeks an experienced VMware Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize VMware-based environments in Irving, Texas.

The role covers deployment of vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, operational support, upgrades, and performance tuning to ensure high availability and enterprise-grade reliability. Responsibilities include incident response, capacity planning, and documentation, with opportunities to influence architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering VMware environments.
• Strong experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux server environments.
• Experience with enterprise storage technologies (SAN/NAS).
• Understanding of networking concepts including VLANs, NIC Teaming, DNS, and TCP/IP.
• Experience supporting highly available production environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and administer VMware environments including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Provide operational support, monitoring, and troubleshooting for virtual infrastructure.
• Perform VMware upgrades, patches, and platform migrations.
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure optimization.
• Configure and maintain HA, DRS, vMotion, and Fault Tolerance features.
• Collaborate with storage, network, security, and server teams.
• Support backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Perform incident response, root cause analysis, and issue resolution.
• Provide technical guidance for infrastructure projects and architecture decisions.
• Create and maintain operational documentation and runbooks.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter

Windows Server

Linux Server

SAN/NAS

Networking basics

Tools

PowerShell

PowerCLI

Python

Job description

Compunnel, Inc. seeks an experienced VMware Engineer to design, implement, administer, and optimize VMware-based environments in Irving, Texas.

The role covers deployment of vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, operational support, upgrades, and performance tuning to ensure high availability and enterprise-grade reliability. Responsibilities include incident response, capacity planning, and documentation, with opportunities to influence architecture decisions.