VMWare Engineer (Senior IT Analyst) - HYBRID

Job Responsibilities

• Design and manage VMware vSphere (vCenter, ESXi) environments supporting mission critical workloads.
• Lead VMware version upgrades, patching cycles, and platform standardization.
• Support advanced VMware technologies as applicable: vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vSphere Replication, Aria Operations (vROps).
• Provide troubleshooting across computers, storage, network, and virtualization layers.
• Serve as technical owner for Pure Storage FlashArray platform.
• Integrate Pure Storage with VMware per vendor and enterprise best practices.
• Manage Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI connectivity, zoning, masking, and multipathing.
• Lead storage refreshes, non-disruptive migrations, and technology roadmap planning.
• Design, implement, and support hybrid cloud infrastructure leveraging Microsoft Azure and AWS.
• Engineer secure connectivity between on-premises and cloud platforms (site to site VPN, ExpressRoute / Direct Connect as applicable) and identity integration with Entra ID.
• Support cloud hosted infrastructure services including IaaS virtual machines and managed storage services (e.g., Azure Managed Disks/Azure Files, AWS EBS/EFS/S3 concepts).
• Implement cloud resource governance: landing zones, subscriptions/accounts, tagging standards, cost controls, monitoring, and capacity visibility.
• Support hybrid disaster recovery strategies (on-prem ↔ cloud and cloud ↔ cloud).
• Maintain backup and recovery platforms (e.g., Cohesity, Veeam) across on-premises and cloud workloads.
• Define and support RTO/RPO objectives aligned with regulatory and business requirements.
• Execute restore tests, disaster recovery exercises, and hybrid cloud recovery scenarios.
• Maintain disaster recovery diagrams, runbooks, and audit-ready documentation.
• Ensure infrastructure platforms comply with NIST SP 800 53 and HIPAA Security Rule.
• Apply secure configuration and hardening standards to VMware platforms, storage systems, and cloud infrastructure resources.
• Support audits through evidence collection, system explanations, and remediation planning.
• Partner with Information Security on vulnerability remediation and compensating controls.
• Act as senior technical lead and escalation point for infrastructure platforms.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide peer technical oversight.
• Lead infrastructure initiatives including cloud adoption, storage modernization, and compliance remediation.
• Work with VMware, Pure Storage, Microsoft, AWS, and integration partners on roadmap planning and escalations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience including: VMware vSphere engineering, enterprise storage experience with Pure Storage, experience supporting cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise in VMware vCenter/ESXi, clustering, lifecycle management; storage optimization; hybrid backup and DR strategies; and secure infrastructure design.
• Experience supporting regulated environments (government, research) and partnering with security and compliance teams.