Vmware Consultant

Soho Square Solutions; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Soho Square Solutions is seeking an experienced VMware engineer to design, deploy, and support large-scale vSphere environments in Jersey City. You will migrate legacy sites to VMware Cloud Foundation 9+, participate in disaster recovery planning, and maintain strict RPO/RTO targets for critical workloads.

You will provide Tier-2/3 support, perform automated OS and firmware updates, and oversee capacity monitoring using Aria Operations, VRLI, and VRNI.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, deploying and supporting large VMware environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and support large-scale VMware environments (vSphere 8, NSX-T, vSAN).
• Migrate legacy VMware sites to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 or newer stacks.
• Participate in DR planning, testing, and execution; maintain RPO ≤ 5 seconds and RTO ≤ 15 minutes.
• Provide Tier-2/3 on-call support for production workloads.
• Perform OS and firmware upgrades and security patches via automated pipelines.
• Configure thresholds, alarms and dashboards in Aria Operations, VRLI and VRNI.
• Use AI-driven anomaly detection to anticipate capacity bottlenecks.

Skills

VMware design

vSphere 8

DR/BC planning

24x7 on-call

AI health checks

Tools

Aria Operations

VRLI

VRNI

Job description

• 5-7 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale VMware environments (vSphere 8, NSX-T, vSAN).
• Demonstrated experience migrating legacy VMware sites to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 or newer cloud-native stacks.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Participate in DR planning, testing, and execution for the virtualization environment; maintain RPO ≤ 5 seconds and RTO ≤ 15 minutes for critical workloads.
• Operational Support
• Provide Tier-2/3 support for production workloads, including 24 × 7 on-call rotation.
• Conduct thorough morning and end-of-day health-checks using scripted tools and AI-generated health scores.
• Perform OS and firmware upgrades, mandatory security patches, and storage-system updates through automated pipelines.
• Performance Monitoring & Capacity Management
• Configure, fine-tune, and maintain monitoring thresholds, alarms, and dashboards in Aria Operations, VRLI, and VRNI.
• Use AI-driven anomaly detection to anticipate capacity bottlenecks and latency spikes before they affect production.
• Process Improvement & Standardisation
• Facilitate environment-wide process-improvement initiatives (change, release, and incident management) to increase efficiency and consistency.
• Ensure all deployments adhere to group standards, best practices, and security hardening guides (CIS, VMware Hardened Base Image).