VMware Systems Support

Unisys; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Unisys is seeking a VMware Systems Support professional to provide ongoing installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting for VMware environments across multiple locations. You will advise on storage, databases, and networks while addressing incident tickets and ensuring system compliance.

You will lead infrastructure strategy, design high-availability solutions, and develop migration roadmaps. The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and a focus on reliability and operational

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree with 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• Senior VMware systems administration experience.
• Experience with clustering and enterprise infrastructure design.

Responsibilities

• Lead Systems Administration for VMware across the company
• Design high-availability VMware solutions and migration roadmaps
• Coordinate DR planning, runbooks, and testing for VMware environments
• Advise on storage, databases, and networks to improve reliability and performance

Skills

VMware systems

Enterprise infrastructure

Windows Server clustering

Linux server clustering

Cloud fundamentals (OCI/Azure)

Education

BA/BS degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Server

Linux Servers

Job description

What success looks like in this role:

U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required.

Position Summary

The VMware Systems Support role provides ongoing Systems Administration support, including installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware, software, applications, and connectivity components for VMware environments across multiple locations. This role provides technical support and advises on the use of storage, database systems, and networks. Operational responsibilities include remediation of daily incident tickets, system compliance, system run enhancement, testing, staging, policy/procedure enhancement, client contact coordination, and operational recommendations to address availability and reliability issues on VMware systems, while playing a lead role in shaping VMware systems strategy across the company.

Core Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy Plays a lead role in Systems Administration across the company, building on responsibilities such as: Ensures alignment of systems design and strategy with corporate business requirements and objectives.

Business & Systems Alignment Applies extensive knowledge of the business and user community in systems design, development, and support. Translates long-term business requirements into systems and infrastructure design.

Infrastructure & Technical Advisory Provides infrastructure leadership for hardware and software systems support. Advises and consults company-wide on the resolution of unique, complex, or business critical issues.

Project Responsibilities

Assesses and documents current-state VMware solution architectures. Designs and recommends high-availability VMware solutions, including Server clustering and VMware-based infrastructure, aligned with business and technical requirements. Develops migration strategies, implementation roadmaps, and associated bills of materials for VMware environments. Ensures proposed VMware solutions can be effectively integrated into the Operations support practice. Collaborates with account teams to gather operational knowledge and support transition planning.

Disaster Recovery Responsibilities

Participates in design reviews to validate that VMware solutions can meet recovery objectives. Reviews and maintains DR documentation, runbooks, and supporting artifacts for VMware systems. Supports coordination and execution of planned DR testing activities. Monitors and evaluates VMware DR infrastructure capacity across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Education Required: BA/BS degree and 5+ years of relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience. Preferred: Master's degree.

Experience Senior-level expertise in VMware systems administration and enterprise infrastructure design. Proven ability to work with technical teams and advise across the organization on complex, business-critical issues. Experience with Microsoft Server, including clustering. Experience with Linux Servers, including clustering Familiarity with disaster recovery and high availability in cloud environments — Oracle OCI and Microsoft Azure.

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore, to conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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About Unisys

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