Senior VMware Engineer – Private Cloud & Automation

Verisign Inc.; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Verisign Inc. in Reston, VA is seeking an experienced VMware Infrastructure Engineer III to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team.

This hands-on role focuses on engineering, administering, and lifecycle management of Verisign's VMware virtualization environment to ensure reliability and performance for critical workloads. You will troubleshoot complex issues, plan upgrades, automate provisioning and monitoring, and collaborate with storage, network, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years technical infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on VMware vSphere experience in production enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter Server.
• Experience managing VMware Clusters, HA, DRS, vMotion, and related technologies.
• Experience with scripting or automation technologies such as PowerShell/PowerCLI, Python, or similar tools.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure.
• Manage VMware vSphere, ESXi hosts, vCenter clusters, networking, storage connectivity, and associated virtualization technologies.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, availability, and utilization and proactively address potential issues.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization, server, storage, networking, and application infrastructure issues.
• Plan and execute VMware upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, migrations, and lifecycle-management activities.
• Support the transition and modernization of the VMware environment, including changes associated with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and evolving VMware/Broadcom technologies.
• Participate in architecture and engineering decisions related to virtualization and private‑cloud infrastructure.
• Develop automation to improve provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and disaster‑recovery documentation.
• Work closely with storage, network, backup, security, operating‑system, and application teams to support highly available enterprise services.
• Participate in incident response, root‑cause analysis, change management, and problem management.
• Identify opportunities to improve resiliency, redundancy, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers and serve as a subject‑matter expert for virtualization technologies.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation and provide support for critical infrastructure incidents as required.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter Server

PowerShell/PowerCLI

Python

Automation

Networking concepts

Storage integration

Documentation

Project management

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Dell PowerEdge

VMware NSX

VMware Aria

VCF

Job description

Verisign Inc. in Reston, VA is seeking an experienced VMware Infrastructure Engineer III to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team.

This hands-on role focuses on engineering, administering, and lifecycle management of Verisign's VMware virtualization environment to ensure reliability and performance for critical workloads. You will troubleshoot complex issues, plan upgrades, automate provisioning and monitoring, and collaborate with storage, network, and security teams.