VMWare Engineer

Required Skills & Experience
• 7+ years of VMware engineering experience in large enterprise environments\n• Strong hands-on experience supporting VMware ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter\n• Advanced troubleshooting experience serving as a Tier 3 escalation point for VMware-related incidents and infrastructure issues\n• Strong Windows Server administration experience\n• Scripting experience (PowerShell, Visual Basic, or similar) for automation and operational efficiencies\n• Bachelor's Degree

Nice to Have Skills & Experience
• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) experience\n• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management\n• Experience with Morpheus or other cloud automation platforms\n• Manufacturing industry experience\n• Experience supporting Fortune 1000 enterprise environments

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a VMware Infrastructure Engineer to support one of our Fortune 250 manufacturing clients. This individual will join a team of 5-6 engineers responsible for a VMware environment consisting of over 3,000 virtual servers.\nThis role will function as a Tier 3 escalation resource, focused on diagnosing and resolving complex VMware infrastructure issues that have been escalated beyond Tier 1 and Tier 2 support teams. The engineer will partner closely with infrastructure, networking, storage, and server teams to maintain the stability, performance, and scalability of the virtual environment.\nAdditional responsibilities include:\n• Acting as the highest-level VMware support resource for critical incidents and complex troubleshooting efforts\n• Troubleshooting issues across vCenter, ESXi, NSX-T, storage, and virtualization layers\n• Performing root cause analysis on recurring infrastructure issues and implementing long-term solutions\n• Designing, configuring, and optimizing vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation environments\n• Managing and optimizing datastore clusters and overall virtual infrastructure performance\n• Developing scripts and automation solutions for VMware and Windows-based administration tasks\n• Supporting Active Directory and Windows server integrations within the VMware ecosystem\n• Leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning, configuration management, and infrastructure deployments\n• Identifying opportunities for modernization, automation, and process improvement across the VMware platform\n• Participating in infrastructure projects, upgrades, migrations, and platform enhancement initiatives. This role is roughly 65-70hr