VMWare Administrator

Northern Base; Marlborough (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Base is seeking a skilled VMware Administrator to design, implement, and support enterprise VMware environments across production, DR, and test setups. You will lead cluster management, troubleshooting, patching, and security hardening to ensure high availability.

Responsibilities include on-call support, incident resolution, capacity planning, and collaborating with Storage, Network, Security, and Application teams to maintain stable, efficient platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience administering enterprise VMware environments.
• Strong troubleshooting across ESXi hosts, VMs, storage and vSphere features.
• Experience with patching, hardening, and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Administer, monitor, and support enterprise VMware platforms across environments.
• Lead cluster management, capacity planning, and hardware refreshes.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive continuous service improvements.
• Collaborate with Storage, Network, Security, and Application teams to resolve issues.

Skills

VMware administration

Troubleshooting

Capacity planning

Incident response

Documentation

Tools

vSphere

ESXi

vCenter

vSAN

Backup & DR tooling

Job description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Administer, maintain, monitor, and support enterprise VMware virtualization platforms, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and related ecosystem components.
• Design, install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot VMware infrastructure across production, DR, and test environments.
• Lead VMware cluster management activities, including host deployment, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and hardware refresh initiatives.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, storage, networking, HA, DRS, vMotion, and vSAN-related issues.
• Manage VMware patching, upgrades, security hardening, and vulnerability remediation activities while ensuring minimal business disruption.
• Configure and maintain backup, recovery, replication, snapshot, and disaster recovery solutions for virtualized workloads.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security standards, audit requirements, and infrastructure governance policies.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, analyze trends, identify risks, and implement proactive improvements to enhance platform stability and efficiency.
• Perform root cause analysis for critical incidents, develop preventive measures, and drive continuous service improvements.
• Support infrastructure modernization initiatives, including VMware version upgrades, capacity optimization, workload migrations, and cloud integration projects.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and knowledge base articles.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Storage, Backup, Network, Security, Server, and Application teams to resolve complex infrastructure issues.

Roles & Responsibilities

• VMware administration responsible for the design, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and operational support of enterprise VMware environments.
• Monitor platform health, utilization, and performance trends; implement proactive improvements to optimize availability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Backup, Security, and Application teams to deliver stable and resilient services.
• Participate in on-call support, planned maintenance activities, major incident resolution, and disaster recovery testing exercises.