VMware Infrastructure Engineer

Verisign•Reston, VA

2d•$108,900 - $147,300•Hybrid

About The Position

Verisign is seeking an experienced VMware Infrastructure Engineer III for its Enterprise Infrastructure team. The role is responsible for engineering, administering, maintaining, and supporting the availability, performance, and lifecycle of Verisign’s enterprise VMware virtualization environment. The successful candidate will be a hands-on infrastructure engineer with strong VMware experience who can independently troubleshoot complex issues, perform platform upgrades and lifecycle activities, and help evolve the virtualization environment as technologies and business requirements change. The engineer will work closely with an experienced VMware engineer during a knowledge-transfer period to learn the environment’s operational practices, architecture, and business-critical workloads. The position works with teams across storage, networking, backup, security, operating systems, and applications to support highly available enterprise services. It is based in Verisign’s Reston, Virginia office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent work experience.
At least 5 years of technical infrastructure experience.
Significant hands-on experience supporting VMware vSphere environments in a production enterprise environment.
Strong experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter Server.
Experience managing VMware clusters, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion, and related technologies.
Experience with enterprise server hardware and lifecycle management.
Understanding of enterprise SAN/storage concepts and VMware storage integration.
Strong understanding of networking concepts relating to virtualization, including VLANs, virtual switches, distributed switches, and network redundancy.
Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues spanning compute, storage, networking, and operating systems.
Experience performing VMware upgrades, migrations, patching, and platform lifecycle activities.
Experience with scripting or automation technologies such as PowerShell/PowerCLI, Python, or similar tools.
Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
Ability to independently manage technical projects and operational responsibilities with limited supervision.

Nice To Haves

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
Experience with VMware NSX and software-defined networking.
Experience with VMware Aria products or other infrastructure monitoring and automation platforms.
Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, or business-critical virtualization environments.
Experience with Dell PowerEdge or comparable enterprise server platforms.
Experience with enterprise SAN technologies and storage platforms.
Familiarity with backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and business-continuity technologies.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, git-based configuration management, or other automation frameworks.
Familiarity with alternative virtualization or private-cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure.
Manage VMware vSphere, ESXi hosts, vCenter clusters, networking, storage connectivity, and associated virtualization technologies.
Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, availability, and utilization, and proactively address potential issues.
Troubleshoot complex virtualization, server, storage, networking, and application infrastructure issues.
Plan and execute VMware upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, migrations, and lifecycle-management activities.
Support transition and modernization of the VMware environment, including changes associated with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and evolving VMware/Broadcom technologies.
Participate in architecture and engineering decisions related to virtualization and private-cloud infrastructure.
Develop automation to improve provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and disaster-recovery documentation.
Work with storage, network, backup, security, operating-system, and application teams to support highly available enterprise services.
Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and problem management.
Identify opportunities to improve resiliency, redundancy, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers and serve as a subject-matter expert for virtualization technologies.
Participate in an on-call rotation and support critical infrastructure incidents as required.