Senior VMware Engineer - Platform Reliability & Security

Navitas Partners, LLC; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Navitas Partners, LLC is seeking a Senior VMware Specialist to manage and optimize VMware vSphere environments, ensuring stability, security, and high performance across our infrastructure.

You will serve as a senior escalation point for incidents, changes, and problem management, collaborating with storage, network, security, and application teams, while mentoring junior admins and advancing automation and operational standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in production VMware operations.
• Strong proficiency with VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, ESXi, clusters, HA/DR.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure incidents across compute, storage, and network.
• Experience with change management, incident management, and problem management.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation (PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs).
• Experience with patching, lifecycle management, monitoring, recovery, and security remediation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support VMware environments, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, VMs, templates, resource pools, and distributed switching.
• Provide senior-level troubleshooting for incidents involving availability, performance, capacity, connectivity, host failures, VM issues, and virtualization-related service degradation.
• Perform root-cause analysis and contribute to problem-management activities, corrective actions, and prevention plans.
• Plan and execute approved changes, including host maintenance, patching, upgrades, configuration updates, workload migrations, and cluster balancing.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends; identify risks before they affect business services.
• Support high-availability, distributed-resource-scheduling, vMotion, storage virtualization, and disaster-recovery capabilities as applicable to the environment.
• Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate latency, multipathing, VLAN, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues affecting VMware workloads.
• Maintain operational documentation, support procedures, architecture records, configuration baselines, and knowledge articles.
• Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes in partnership with data-protection and disaster-recovery teams.
• Support vulnerability remediation, security hardening, access reviews, compliance evidence, and audit activities for the virtualization platform.
• Participate in on-call rotations, major-incident response, service reviews, and post-incident retrospectives.
• Mentor junior administrators and promote consistent use of operational standards, automation, and IT service-management practices.

Skills

VMware vSphere expertise

Incident troubleshooting

Change management

Automation scripting (PowerCLI/PowerPS

Communication skills

Capacity planning

Tools

VMware vCenter Server

ESXi

PowerCLI

PowerShell

Python

REST APIs

Job description

Navitas Partners, LLC is seeking a Senior VMware Specialist to manage and optimize VMware vSphere environments, ensuring stability, security, and high performance across our infrastructure.

You will serve as a senior escalation point for incidents, changes, and problem management, collaborating with storage, network, security, and application teams, while mentoring junior admins and advancing automation and operational standards.