Senior VMware Operations Engineer - vSphere & DR

DCI Solutions; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DCI Solutions is seeking a VMware Operations Specialist to own the performance and security of our VMware environments in a Charleston-area data center. You will manage vCenter, ESXi clusters, DRS/HA, and related virtualization components while coordinating with storage and network teams.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise settings, strong scripting/automation skills, and a proactive approach to incident response and problem management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience in production VMware operations.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, vMotion, ESXi.
• Experience with clustering, HA, and DRS.
• Virtual networking and virtual storage expertise.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure incidents across compute, storage, networking, OS, and apps.
• Familiarity with change management, incident management, and problem management processes.
• Scripting or automation experience (PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs).
• Experience with patching, monitoring, backups, lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and security remediation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a VMware Operations Specialist.
• Ensure ongoing performance and security of VMware environments.
• Administer and support VMware environments, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, VMs, and templates.
• Provide troubleshooting for incidents including availability, performance, capacity, and connectivity issues.
• Plan and execute approved changes (host maintenance, patching, upgrades, migrations).
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends.
• Identify risks before they affect business services.
• Support DRS, vMotion, storage virtualization, and disaster recovery.
• Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate latency, multipathing, VLANs, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues.
• Maintain operational documentation and architecture records.
• Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident retrospectives.
• Mentor junior administrators.

Skills

VMware vSphere

vCenter Server

vMotion

HA/DRS

Virtual networking

Virtual storage

Automation scripting

Change/Incident/Problem mgmt

Tools

ESXi

DRS

vSAN

NSX

Job description

DCI Solutions is seeking a VMware Operations Specialist to own the performance and security of our VMware environments in a Charleston-area data center. You will manage vCenter, ESXi clusters, DRS/HA, and related virtualization components while coordinating with storage and network teams.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise settings, strong scripting/automation skills, and a proactive approach to incident response and problem management.