Virtualization Engineer
IBM
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Job summary
IBM Consulting is seeking a highly motivated Virtualization Engineer to administer and optimize enterprise virtualization platforms in a hybrid environment. You will manage VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter, ensure high availability, and drive automation for provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle updates.
Collaborating with cross‑functional teams, you’ll support capacity planning, incident resolution, and disaster recovery testing, while ensuring security and performance across compute,
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, clusters, and VM administration.
- Solid knowledge of virtualized storage and networking concepts, including SAN, NAS, VLANs, and virtual switching.
- Experience with performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution in enterprise virtualization environments.
- Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes for virtual infrastructure.
- Experience with automation and scripting for infrastructure administration, provisioning, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain virtualization infrastructure, including VMs, hosts, clusters, storage, and networking.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents related to virtualization platforms and services.
- Perform capacity planning, resource optimization, and workload balancing.
- Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes, including testing.
- Implement and maintain automation solutions for VM provisioning, monitoring, patching, and reporting.
Skills
Education
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Job description
We are seeking a highly motivated Virtualization Engineer to support the administration, optimization, and ongoing maintenance of enterprise virtualization platforms. This role is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability, and security of virtualized infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking environments. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience with VMware technologies, infrastructure operations, troubleshooting, automation, backup and disaster recovery processes, and system lifecycle management. The Virtualization Engineer will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to support business‑critical systems and continuously improve operational efficiency.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
Administer and maintain virtualization infrastructure, including virtual machines, hosts, clusters, storage, and networking components to ensure high availability and optimal performance.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents related to virtualization platforms, operating systems, storage, networking, and infrastructure services.
Perform capacity planning, resource optimization, and workload balancing to maintain platform scalability and meet business requirements.
Support backup, recovery, and disaster recovery processes, including recovery testing, restore validation, and business continuity initiatives.
Implement and maintain automation solutions for VM provisioning, monitoring, patching, reporting, and operational processes while supporting upgrades, lifecycle management, and technical refresh activities.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Strong hands‑on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, clusters, and virtual machine administration.
- Solid knowledge of virtualized storage and networking concepts, including SAN, NAS, VLANs, and virtual switching.
- Experience with performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident resolution in enterprise virtualization environments.
- Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes for virtual infrastructure.
- Experience with automation and scripting for infrastructure administration, provisioning, and operational efficiency.
- Experience with AWS cloud services and integration of virtualized environments with cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, as well as monitoring and automation platforms.
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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Job Title
Virtualization Engineer
Job ID
133949
City / Township / Village
State / Province
Country
Mexico
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Area of work
Infrastructure & Technology
Employment type
Regular
Contract type
Regular
Position type
Professional
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