VMware Aria Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide operational support for enterprise VMware Aria and VCF Foundation platforms.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management activities, including troubleshooting platform outages, performance issues, and integration failures.
• Execute platform upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, capacity planning, health assessments, and performance tuning.
• Develop automation solutions, maintain operational documentation and runbooks, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting and administering large-scale VMware Aria Operations environments, including extra-large nodes in active-warm cluster configurations across multiple datacenters.
• 3+ years of experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Foundation components and operations.
• Strong experience managing and troubleshooting vCenter Server, ESXi, clusters, resource pools, and distributed networking.
• Hands-on experience with VMware Aria Operations, Aria Suite Lifecycle, Aria Operations for Networks, and Aria Automation preferred.
• Hands-on Ansible experience for infrastructure automation, configuration management, and operational tasks, plus working knowledge of Linux administration with RHEL preferred.
• Experience in enterprise environments with strict security and compliance requirements, along with familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira, Archer, and scripting in PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Perl.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced VMware Aria Engineer to support enterprise monitoring and event management platforms within a highly regulated environment. Our team is looking for a technically strong professional who can help maintain platform stability, improve operational efficiency, and support lifecycle activities across complex VMware and automation environments.

About SSI People

About SSI People: With over 26 years of industry experience, SSi People has built its reputation and expertise on putting people first. Everything we do works toward delivering exceptional experience for our consultants, our clients, and our internal team. Through a genuine commitment to people in everything we do. We have developed refined processes and a stellar internal team to deliver talent quickly. More importantly, we focus on building long-term relationships, not transactions. Putting people first is just what we do well.