VMWare Engineer-6

Realign Llc; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Realign Llc in Framingham, Massachusetts seeks an experienced VMware Administrator to design, deploy, and operate the organization's virtualization estate.

You will own end-to-end uptime, performance tuning, security hardening, and DR readiness, collaborating with Storage, Network, and Application teams.

Qualifications

• Administer and maintain enterprise VMware platforms (vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN).
• Design, install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot VMware across prod, DR, and test environments.
• Lead VMware cluster management activities including host deployment, capacity planning, and hardware refreshes.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, VMs, storage, networking, HA, DRS, vMotion and vSAN issues.
• Manage patching, upgrades, security hardening, and vulnerability remediation with minimal business disruption.
• Configure and maintain backup, recovery, replication, snapshots and DR for virtualized workloads.
• Ensure compliance with security standards, audit requirements and governance policies.
• Monitor performance, analyze trends, identify risks, and implement proactive improvements.
• Perform root cause analysis for critical incidents and drive continuous service improvements.
• Support modernization initiatives including version upgrades, capacity optimization, and cloud integration.

Responsibilities

• Monitor platform health and performance trends; implement proactive improvements.
• Collaborate with Storage, Network, Backup, Security, Server, and App teams to resolve complex issues.
• Participate in on-call, maintenance activities, major incident resolution, and DR testing.

Skills

VMware vSphere & ESXi

vCenter & vSAN

Cluster management & capacity planning

Troubleshooting ESXi hosts and VMs

Backup & DR strategies

Security hardening & governance

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Framingham, Massachusetts 01702 Posted October 1st, 2026

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.