VMWare Engineer

Volto Consulting; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Volto Consulting in Framingham, MA is seeking an experienced VMware Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise VMware virtualization across production, DR, and test environments. The role requires 10–12 years of hands-on expertise with vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and related components, along with strong incident response and performance tuning.

You will lead cluster management, patching, hardening, backups, disaster recovery, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of enterprise VMware administration experience.
• Design, deploy, upgrade, and troubleshoot VMware infrastructure across production, DR, and test environments.
• Lead cluster management, capacity planning, and hardware refresh initiatives.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive improvements.
• Ensure security hardening and governance compliance.

Responsibilities

• VMware administration for enterprise environments.
• Monitor health, usage, performance trends, and optimize availability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver stable services.
• Participate in on-call support and DR testing.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi/vCenter/vSAN

Disaster Recovery

Performance Tuning

On-call Support

Tools

Veeam

vRealize Suite

Job description

Job Title: VMWare Engineer

Job Location: Framingham, MA - Onsite

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Description

Experience: 10 - 12 years

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.