Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Virtualization, Storage & Automation (Vice President)

Job summary

Seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join a global systems engineering team. This role involves designing, engineering, and operating enterprise virtualization, storage, and backup platforms in a hybrid multi-cloud environment. The engineer will build and maintain highly available, scalable, and automated infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices.

Qualifications

• VMware certification (VCP/VCAP).
• 5–8 years hands-on experience with vCenter and vSphere/ESXi 6.x–8.x.
• Deep understanding of VMware core technologies and enterprise virtualization (HA, DRS, vMotion, ESXi multipathing).
• 5+ years managing enterprise storage platforms (NetApp, Pure Storage, Nimble/HPE Alletra, or Fibre Channel SAN).
• 3+ years operating enterprise backup and data protection tools (Commvault, Cohesity, or equivalent).
• 5+ years automation and infrastructure-as-code experience: Terraform for infrastructure provisioning; Ansible for configuration management and orchestration; Python, PowerCLI, and PowerShell for scripting and tooling.
• 5+ years supporting large, globally distributed systems.
• 5+ years supporting VMware SRM or equivalent DR replication technology.
• Knowledge of NSX-T, vRNI, Log Insight.
• Experience with VMC on AWS/Azure/GCP and HCX.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP and DNS.
• Experience working in financial services or a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and operate enterprise virtualization, storage, and backup platforms across a hybrid multi-cloud environment.
• Build and maintain highly available, scalable, and automated infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Work across global teams to deliver secure, resilient, and performant platforms.
• Design, engineer, and operate the global VMware virtualization platform (vCenter, vSphere/ESXi 6.x–8.x, NSX-T, vRNI, Log Insight).
• Manage VMware HA, DRS, vMotion, storage vMotion, and ESXi multipathing across production environments.
• Define and implement virtualization strategies across on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud platforms (VMC on AWS/Azure/GCP, HCX).
• Perform capacity planning, patching, upgrades, security hardening, and performance troubleshooting.
• Manage and optimize enterprise storage platforms: NetApp (file/NAS), Pure Storage (block/flash), HPE Nimble/Alletra, and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure.
• Perform storage provisioning, performance tuning, capacity management, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Troubleshoot memory, datastore, and storage performance issues across the virtualization estate.
• Own and operate enterprise backup and data protection platforms (Commvault, Cohesity).
• Design and maintain DR replication strategies using VMware SRM, Zerto, or equivalent technologies.
• Ensure backup SLAs are met, conduct recovery testing, and maintain DR runbooks.
• Build and maintain automation and orchestration frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, Python, PowerCLI, and PowerShell.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code pipelines for provisioning, configuration management, and platform operations.
• Automate routine operational tasks to drive efficiency, reduce toil, and improve consistency.
• Partner with global operations teams (Network, Cloud, Desktop, Data Center) to ensure platform stability and reliability.
• Maintain documentation, SOPs, engineering designs, and runbooks.
• Participate in weekly on-call rotation supporting a 24x7 global environment.

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