Senior VMware Infra Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Automation

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

Job summary

Verisign is seeking an experienced VMware Infrastructure Engineer III to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team in Reston, VA. This role will own the engineering, administration, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of Verisign's VMware virtualization environment.

You will work with a hands-on team, upgrade and patch systems, implement automation, and collaborate with storage, network, and security groups to ensure highly available services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical infrastructure experience.
• Hands-on VMware vSphere in production environments.
• Experience with ESXi and vCenter Server.
• HA/DRS/vMotion and related technologies.
• Scripting/automation using PowerShell/PowerCLI or Python.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
• Able to independently manage technical projects and operational responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure.
• Manage VMware vSphere, ESXi hosts, vCenter clusters, networking, storage connectivity, and related virtualization technologies.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, availability, and utilization; address issues.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization, server, storage, networking, and application infrastructure issues.
• Plan and execute VMware upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, migrations, and lifecycle activities.
• Support transitions and modernization of the VMware environment, including VCF and related tech.
• Develop automation to improve provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and DR documentation.
• Collaborate with storage, network, backup, security, OS, and application teams.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and problem management.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter Server

DRS/HA/vMotion

Automation (PowerShell/PowerCLI)

Python

Scripting & Automation

Documentation

On-call support

Tools

PowerCLI

VCF

NSX

Git (IaC)

Job description

Verisign is seeking an experienced VMware Infrastructure Engineer III to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team in Reston, VA. This role will own the engineering, administration, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of Verisign's VMware virtualization environment.

You will work with a hands-on team, upgrade and patch systems, implement automation, and collaborate with storage, network, and security groups to ensure highly available services.