VMware Cloud Engineer

VMware Cloud Engineer
Bethesda, MD
6-month contract-to-hire
$55 to $60 per hour contract with a conversion salary of $105K to $115K annually DOE

Summary
We are seeking a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Engineer to support the deployment, configuration, upgrades, and migration of enterprise VMware environments. This hands-on role works alongside senior engineers to implement VCF 9, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, validate integrations, and support workload migrations.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing VMware environments, including virtual machines, hosts, clusters, networking, and storage.
• Support VCF 9 deployment, configuration, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Assist with infrastructure readiness, compatibility checks, and remediation.
• Execute workload migrations and perform pre- and post-migration validation.
• Support integrations involving networking, storage, backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud platforms.
• Monitor platform health and troubleshoot VMware configuration, connectivity, and migration issues.
• Maintain technical documentation, migration runbooks, validation checklists, and issue logs.
• Collaborate with senior architects and engineers to execute implementation plans.

• 1–3 years of VMware, virtualization, systems administration, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Hands-on familiarity with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, virtual machines, and clusters.
• Understanding of VMware networking, storage, and workload migration, including vMotion or Storage vMotion.
• Foundational knowledge of VCF, infrastructure upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including VLANs, IP addressing, DNS, routing, and firewalls.
• Familiarity with backup, replication, disaster recovery, and Azure or AWS cloud environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues, follow implementation procedures, and document results.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work under the direction of senior engineers.

• Hands-on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) experience.
• Experience with enterprise storage, backup, replication, or disaster recovery platforms.
• Azure, AWS, or hybrid-cloud integration experience.
• VMware or other relevant technical certifications.
• Experience in government or regulated environments.

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