VMware Infrastructure Engineer
TEKsystems•Jersey City, NJ
•$65 - $80•Hybrid
About The Position
Our client is seeking a Senior Virtualization/VMware Engineer for a 12-month contract. The position is hybrid, with two days per week in Jersey City, New Jersey. The engineer will configure, administer, monitor, design, and implement enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments. The role supports enterprise-scale systems and requires deep VMware expertise, disaster recovery and migration experience, automation skills, and the ability to troubleshoot across infrastructure domains. Occasional evening and weekend support is required.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience managing and engineering VMware environments, including vCenter, ESXi, lifecycle management, and day-to-day platform operations in large enterprise environments.
- Extensive knowledge of VMware solutions, including vSphere, vCenter Server, ESXi Hypervisor, vLCM/VUM, Site Recovery Manager, Aria Operations Manager, Aria Automation, NSX, Aria Operations for Logs, vSAN, Skyline, Tanzu, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and VMware HCX.
- Proven experience supporting disaster recovery programs, workload mobility, and large-scale migration initiatives using VMware Site Recovery Manager and related DR technologies.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, PowerCLI, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale systems.
- Expert-level troubleshooting and support experience with ESXi, virtual machines, guest operating systems, network, and storage.
- Experience with containers.
- Ability to work across storage, networking, compute, and cloud infrastructure teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting large banking or financial services environments where uptime, change control, disaster recovery, and regulatory scrutiny are critical.
- Hands-on experience planning and executing infrastructure migrations, workload mobility initiatives, hardware refreshes, or data center consolidations without impacting production systems.
- Direct experience with Dell EMC VxBlock, VxRail, or Cisco UCS converged and hyper-converged infrastructure platforms.
Responsibilities
- Configure, administer, and monitor enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Design and implement virtualization infrastructure, including hardware and supporting services, across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Support disaster recovery programs, workload mobility, and large-scale migration initiatives using VMware Site Recovery Manager and related DR technologies.
- Automate deployments, configuration management, and repetitive operational tasks.
- Design, develop, deploy, and support enterprise-scale systems.
- Troubleshoot and support ESXi, virtual machines, guest operating systems, networks, and storage.
- Provide occasional evening and weekend support.
- Coordinate troubleshooting across storage, networking, compute, and cloud teams as a virtualization subject matter expert.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance for employees and dependents
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time off/leave, including PTO, vacation, or sick leave
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Career Level
Senior
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