| Location | Jersey City, NJ |
| Salary | $55–$60 Per Hour |
Job Description: Senior IT VMware Systems Engineer
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: $55-$60/hour
Work Arrangement: 3 days onsite per week (Monday or Friday plus 2 additional days)
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior IT VMware Systems Engineer to manage, Eligible to workimize, and support a large-scale enterprise virtualization environment within the banking and financial services industry. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in VMware vSphere 8, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), capacity management, infrastructure lifecycle management, and production support.
The resource will be responsible for real-time capacity monitoring, reviewing and validating infrastructure capacity increase requests (RITMs), replacing end-of-life servers, and ensuring the stability, availability, security, and performance of mission-critical production environments.
The role will also contribute to VMware Cloud Foundation modernization, infrastructure automation, operational standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives while adhering to strict banking governance, security, regulatory, and production change management requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Design, deploy, administer, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure.
Maintain and Eligible to workimize VMware vSphere 8.x, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), ESXi hosts, and vCenter Server environments.
Support platform modernization and migration initiatives involving VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9).
Manage and maintain a large infrastructure estate of approximately 400-500 servers.
Troubleshoot complex virtualization, compute, storage, networking, and performance issues.
Ensure platform availability, resilience, scalability, and adherence to enterprise architecture standards.
Perform real-time infrastructure capacity monitoring and forecasting.
Review, validate, challenge, and approve or recommend approval of incoming RITMs for capacity increases.
Analyze CPU, memory, storage, and resource utilization to identify bottlenecks and prevent capacity-related incidents.
Monitor platform health, performance metrics, utilization trends, and service-level compliance.
Use VMware Aria Operations and related monitoring tools to generate dashboards, alerts, and capacity reports.
Recommend resource Eligible to workimization and right-sizing initiatives to improve utilization and reduce infrastructure costs.
Lead and coordinate the replacement of aging and end-of-life servers to minimize hardware failure risks.
Plan and execute hardware deployments, infrastructure migrations, and production onboarding.
Coordinate hardware, firmware, ESXi, and software lifecycle upgrades.
Validate infrastructure readiness, compatibility, security baselines, and operational stability before production deployment.
Work with hardware vendors, storage teams, networking teams, and global infrastructure teams to ensure seamless delivery.
Support hardware and software obsolescence remediation and business-as-usual (BAU) activities.
Provide Tier 2/Tier 3 support for business-critical virtualization infrastructure.
Participate in 24×7 operational support and on-call rotations as required.
Execute infrastructure changes within approved production change windows.
Follow banking and financial services change management, incident management, problem management, and release management procedures.
Assess change risks, dependencies, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and service continuity requirements.
Perform routine health checks, investigate incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
Support the Follow-the-Sun (FTS) operating model and coordinate with global support teams.
Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration validation, patching, reporting, and lifecycle management.
Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through standardization and self-service automation.
Support predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, automated incident triage, and AI-enabled operations where applicable.
Document operational procedures, technical standards, and repeatable implementation processes.
Ensure virtualization infrastructure complies with enterprise security policies and applicable banking regulations.
Apply security hardening standards, access controls, patch management, and configuration baselines.
Maintain appropriate documentation and audit evidence for infrastructure changes and operational activities.
Work within established governance frameworks and risk management processes.
Ensure production changes are appropriately reviewed, approved, implemented, and validated.
Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution for virtualization platforms.
Validate backup, replication, failover, and recovery procedures.
Contribute to high availability, business continuity, and service resilience initiatives.
Coordinate with application owners and infrastructure teams to meet defined recovery objectives.
Required Qualifications & Technical Skills
5-7 years of hands-on experience in VMware administration, engineering, and enterprise virtualization support.
Strong practical experience with VMware vSphere 8.x, ESXi, and vCenter Server.
Experience supporting large-scale VMware infrastructure environments.
Hands-on exposure to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), preferably VCF 9 migration or implementation initiatives.
Experience with infrastructure capacity planning, performance monitoring, resource allocation, and utilization analysis.
Experience reviewing infrastructure service requests (RITMs), validating capacity requirements, and managing resource increases.
Experience with hardware lifecycle management, server refreshes, firmware upgrades, and production deployments.
Strong understanding of enterprise storage, including SAN, NAS, iSCSI, and vSAN technologies.
Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, and VMware NSX-T.
Experience with VMware Aria Operations and related monitoring, logging, and analytics tools.
Scripting and automation experience using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
Strong troubleshooting, incident management, change management, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Skills & Certifications
VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or equivalent VMware certification.
VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, or NSX-T certifications or relevant hands-on experience.
Experience with VMware Aria Operations, Aria Automation, Log Insight, or Network Insight.
Experience with ITIL-based service management processes.
Exposure to AI-driven operations, predictive analytics, infrastructure automation, and intelligent capacity forecasting.
Strong documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and cross-team collaboration skills.
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