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About the Role
VaporVM seeks a Senior Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Specialist with 10-15+ years of enterprise IT experience. The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing VMware, Windows Server, Azure, storage, backup, and disaster recovery environments.
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Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and administer VMware vSphere environments including ESXi and vCenter
- Manage VMware vSAN clusters and hyper converged infrastructure including Dell VxRail
- Install, configure, administer, and support Microsoft Windows Server (2008 R2–2022)
- Manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and authentication services
- Deploy and administer enterprise backup platforms including Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, and Dell Networker
- Administer enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms
- Deploy and administer Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and Azure networking
- Support enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructure and configure VLANs, switch ports, routing, and network segmentation
- Lead infrastructure modernization, virtualization, cloud migration, and transformation projects
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Electronics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline
- 10–15+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure and virtualization
- Proven experience supporting large scale, multi site enterprise environments
- Hands on experience with VMware, Windows Server, Azure, storage, backup, and disaster recovery technologies
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Job Summary
- We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Specialist with 10–15+ years of enterprise IT infrastructure experience.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise virtualization, cloud, storage, backup, and disaster recovery environments.
- The role requires extensive hands on expertise in VMware, Microsoft Windows Server, Azure Cloud, enterprise storage, backup technologies, and infrastructure modernization.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and administer VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi and vCenter.
- Manage VMware vSAN clusters and hyper converged infrastructure (HCI), including Dell VxRail.
- Perform virtual machine lifecycle management, including provisioning, cloning, snapshot management, migrations (P2V/V2V), and decommissioning.
- Configure and maintain VMware High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and Fault Tolerance (FT).
- Manage VMware networking components, including Standard vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches (DVS), VMkernel adapters, and VLAN configurations.
- Perform ESXi host and vCenter upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Monitor infrastructure health and optimize performance using VMware vRealize Operations or equivalent monitoring tools.
- Troubleshoot virtualization platform issues and perform root cause analysis.
- Install, configure, administer, and support Microsoft Windows Server (2008 R2–2022).
- Manage Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and authentication services.
- Configure and administer Windows Failover Clustering for Hyper V and SQL Server.
- Manage enterprise file services, DFS, print services, and NTFS permissions.
Backup & Disaster Recovery
- Deploy and administer enterprise backup platforms, including Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, and Dell Networker.
- Configure VMware aware and application aware backup solutions.
- Monitor backup jobs, troubleshoot failures, and ensure successful recovery testing.
- Develop and maintain enterprise backup strategies and operational documentation.
- Implement and support disaster recovery solutions using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Zerto.
- Coordinate disaster recovery drills and validate recovery objectives.
Enterprise Storage Administration
- Administer enterprise SAN and NAS storage platforms.
- Configure storage pools, RAID groups, LUNs, and VMware datastores (VMFS/NFS).
- Manage enterprise storage solutions, including Dell EMC, Unity, Pure Storage, and HPE 3PAR/MSA.
- Monitor storage performance, optimize capacity utilization, and perform storage migrations.
Microsoft Azure Administration
- Deploy and administer Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and Azure networking.
- Configure Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), NSGs, VPN Gateways, Load Balancers, and Azure Firewall.
- Manage Azure Storage services, including Blob Storage, Managed Disks, and Azure Files.
- Monitor Azure infrastructure using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Azure Advisor.
- Implement cloud governance and security using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Azure Policy.
- Configure Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), and Azure Update Manager.
Network Infrastructure Support
- Support enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructure.
- Configure VLANs, switch ports, routing, and network segmentation.
- Administer Cisco switches and routers.
- Configure VPN connectivity, firewall policies, and network security controls.
Leadership & Strategic Responsibilities
- Lead infrastructure modernization, virtualization, cloud migration, and transformation projects.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Develop and maintain SOPs, operational procedures, and technical documentation.
- Collaborate with networking, database, cybersecurity, DevOps, and application teams.
- Perform infrastructure capacity planning and technology lifecycle management.
- Participate in major incident response and on call support rotations.
- Recommend improvements to enhance infrastructure performance, scalability, security, and resilience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- 10–15+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure and virtualization.
- Proven experience supporting large scale, multi site enterprise environments.
- Hands on experience with VMware, Windows Server, Azure, storage, backup, and disaster recovery technologies.
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