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Senior VMware Operations Specialist
Compu-Vision Consulting Inc.
- 🇦🇹 Austria | 🇺🇸 United States
- Remote
- Senior
- 23 hours ago
- $75 – $85 / hour
- VMware
- Disaster Recovery
- Incident Response
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- PowerShell
- Python
- REST API
- Linux
- Windows Server
- Configuration Management
- IaC
- ITIL
- Risk Management
23 hours ago
Duration: 6 months with possibility of extension
PR #: PR-3075592/RR- RR-1561684
Work Arrangement/ Location: Vienna, VA. The resource will need to be in the DC metro area and will need to go onsite until they have their electronic credentials.
Key Skills and Knowledge:
- VMware environments
- vCenter Server
- ESXi hosts
- Clusters
- Datastores
- Virtual machines
- Templates
- Resource pools
- Distributed switching
The specialist works closely with infrastructure, storage, networking, security, backup, service desk, and application teams to maintain reliable services, resolve complex issues, and improve operational maturity.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and support VMware environments, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, virtual machines, templates, resource pools, and distributed switching.
- Provide senior-level troubleshooting for incidents involving availability, performance, capacity, connectivity, host failures, VM issues, and virtualization-related service degradation.
- Perform root-cause analysis and contribute to problem-management activities, corrective actions, and prevention plans.
- Plan and execute approved changes, including host maintenance, patching, upgrades, configuration updates, workload migrations, and cluster balancing.
- Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends; identify risks before they affect business services.
- Support high-availability, distributed-resource-scheduling, vMotion, storage virtualization, and disaster-recovery capabilities as applicable to the environment.
- Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate latency, multipathing, VLAN, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues affecting VMware workloads.
- Maintain operational documentation, support procedures, architecture records, configuration baselines, and knowledge articles.
- Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes in partnership with data-protection and disaster-recovery teams.
- Support vulnerability remediation, security hardening, access reviews, compliance evidence, and audit activities for the virtualization platform.
- Participate in on-call rotations, major-incident response, service reviews, and post-incident retrospectives.
- Mentor junior administrators and promote consistent use of operational standards, automation, and IT service-management practices.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise VMware environments in a production operations role.
- Strong experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, ESXi, clusters, HA, DRS, vMotion, virtual networking, and virtual storage.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure incidents across compute, storage, networking, operating systems, and applications.
- Experience with change management, incident management, problem management, and service-level commitments.
- Working knowledge of scripting or automation, such as PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs.
- Experience supporting patching, lifecycle management, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and security remediation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- VMware Certified Professional or higher, such as VCP-DCV or VCAP-DCV.
- Experience with VMware Aria, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, HCX, or VMware Cloud environments.
- Familiarity with enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS technologies, IP networking, Linux, and Windows Server.
- Experience with observability, configuration-management, infrastructure-as-code, or automation platforms.
- ITIL certification or equivalent experience with structured IT service management.
- Experience operating in regulated, highly available, or global enterprise environments.
- High availability and stable performance of the VMware platform.
- Timely resolution of incidents and reduction of repeat incidents.
- Safe, well-documented, and successful change execution.
- Accurate capacity planning and proactive risk management.
- Improved recovery readiness, security posture, automation, and operational documentation.
- Consistent customer and stakeholder satisfaction with virtualization services.
Senior VMware Operations Specialist · Compu-Vision Consulting Inc.