VMWare Administrator/Engineer

Talenzaa; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

Talenzaa in Framingham, MA is seeking a VMware Administrator/Engineer to administer, monitor, and support enterprise VMware environments. You will work with vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN, performing troubleshooting, patching, and security hardening.

This role leads cluster management, capacity planning, and hardware refresh initiatives across production, DR, and test setups, and collaborates with Storage, Network, Security, and Server teams to ensure high availability and compliance.

Qualifications

• Administer and monitor enterprise VMware virtualization platforms.
• Design, install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot VMware infrastructure.
• Lead cluster management, capacity planning, and hardware refresh.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting of ESXi/VMware components.
• Manage patching, security hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
• Configure backup, replication, and disaster recovery for virtual workloads.
• Ensure security standards and governance compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own VMware administration across production, DR, and test environments.
• Collaborate with Storage, Network, and Security teams to resolve issues.
• Monitor performance, analyze trends, and optimize availability and efficiency.
• Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance activities.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter

vSAN

Cluster management

Troubleshooting

Patch management

Disaster recovery

Backup and recovery

Job description

Job Title: VMWare Administrator/Engineer

Location: Framingham, MA 01702 (Onsite)

Salary: $120k + Benefits

Work Authorization: USC and GC

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.
• 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.