VMWare Operations Specialist with Security Clearance

DCI Solutions; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DCI Solutions is seeking a VMware Operations Specialist to own the performance and security of our VMware environments in a Charleston-area data center. You will manage vCenter, ESXi clusters, DRS/HA, and related virtualization components while coordinating with storage and network teams.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise settings, strong scripting/automation skills, and a proactive approach to incident response and problem management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience in production VMware operations.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, vMotion, ESXi.
• Experience with clustering, HA, and DRS.
• Virtual networking and virtual storage expertise.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure incidents across compute, storage, networking, OS, and apps.
• Familiarity with change management, incident management, and problem management processes.
• Scripting or automation experience (PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs).
• Experience with patching, monitoring, backups, lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and security remediation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a VMware Operations Specialist.
• Ensure ongoing performance and security of VMware environments.
• Administer and support VMware environments, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, VMs, and templates.
• Provide troubleshooting for incidents including availability, performance, capacity, and connectivity issues.
• Plan and execute approved changes (host maintenance, patching, upgrades, migrations).
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends.
• Identify risks before they affect business services.
• Support DRS, vMotion, storage virtualization, and disaster recovery.
• Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate latency, multipathing, VLANs, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues.
• Maintain operational documentation and architecture records.
• Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident retrospectives.
• Mentor junior administrators.

Skills

VMware vSphere

vCenter Server

vMotion

HA/DRS

Virtual networking

Virtual storage

Automation scripting

Change/Incident/Problem mgmt

Tools

ESXi

DRS

vSAN

NSX

Job description

DCI Job Requirement for: VMWare Operations Specialist

Location: Charlston, SC

Job Description:

• Serve as a VMware Operations Specialist
• Responsible for the ongoing performance and security of VMware environments
• After implementation and handover to operations
• Administer and support VMware environments, including:
• vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, VMs, templates, etc.
• Provide troubleshooting for a variety of incidents, including involving:
• Availability, performance, capacity, connectivity, host failures, VM issues, etc.
• Perform root-cause analysis
• Contribute to problem-management activities, corrective actions, prevention plans
• Plan and execute approved changes, including:
• Host maintenance, patching, upgrades, configuration updates, and migrations
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends
• Identify risks before they affect business services
• Support DRS, vMotion, storage virtualization, disaster-recovery
• Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate:
• Latency, multipathing, VLAN, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues
• Maintain operational documentation, procedures, architecture records, etc.
• Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes
• Support activities for the virtualization platform, including:
• Vulnerability remediation, security hardening, access reviews, and audits
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident retrospectives
• Mentor junior administrators

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise environments
• Including supporting VMware environments in a production operations role
• Strong, hands-on experience with the following:
• VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, vMotion, ESXi
• Clusters, HA, DRS
• Virtual networking, and virtual storage
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure incidents
• Across compute, storage, networking, operating systems, and applications
• Experience with change management, incident management, and problem management
• Working knowledge of scripting or automation, such as:
• Power CLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs
• Experience supporting the following:
• Patching, monitoring, and backups
• Lifecycle management
• Disaster recovery, and security remediation

Preferred Qualifications:

• VMware Certified Professional or higher, such as VCP-DCV or VCAP-DCV
• Experience with
• VMware Aria or VMware Cloud environments
• vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, HCX
• Familiarity with enterprise storage platforms
• SAN/NAS technologies, IP networking, Linux, and Windows Server
• Experience with observability, configuration-management, IaC, or automation platforms
• ITIL certification or equivalent experience with structured IT service management
• Experience operating in regulated, highly available, or global enterprise environments

Required: US Citizenship Job Type: Full-time Salary: $120,000-$150,000