Virtualization Engineer

Location: Harrisburg, PA
Position Type: Hybrid
Hybrid Schedule: 1 day onsite per week, potential schedule change
Contract Length: 5 months + possible extensions

Position Overview:
The Virtualization Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing, and maintaining enterprise virtualization environments, with a focus on ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security across virtualized infrastructure. This role serves as a technical subject matter expert for VMware technologies, driving lifecycle management, automation, system stability, and cross-functional infrastructure integration while providing technical leadership and operational support.

Duties:

• Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize VMware vSphere clusters, ESXi hosts, and core virtualization infrastructure.
• Administer and optimize vCenter Server operations, including templates, host profiles, distributed configurations, and environment standardization.
• Implement, support, and troubleshoot VMware vSAN environments, including storage policy configuration, performance tuning, capacity planning, and issue resolution.
• Architect, configure, and maintain VMware NSX-T networking and security components, including micro-segmentation strategies.
• Manage and support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments and integrated platform components to align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Perform lifecycle management activities using VMware Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), including upgrades, patching, compliance tracking, and environment maintenance.
• Develop automation and orchestration solutions using VMware Aria (vRealize) Automation, Orchestrator, PowerCLI, and scripting tools to streamline infrastructure operations.
• Monitor system performance, conduct root-cause analysis, troubleshoot issues, and implement corrective actions to ensure optimal environment stability and uptime.
• Maintain security compliance across virtualized environments through access management, system hardening, auditing, and adherence to operational standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, security, storage, and application teams to design and deliver integrated technical solutions.
• Create and maintain technical architecture documentation, standard operating procedures, disaster recovery documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers and participate in on-call support and incident response activities.

Required Skills:

• Extensive hands-on experience administering VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise with one or more advanced VMware technologies, including vSAN, NSX-T, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), or VMware Aria Suite.
• Proficiency with PowerShell and PowerCLI automation for scripting, orchestration, and systems administration.
• Strong understanding of enterprise compute, storage, and network architectures in complex infrastructure environments.
• Experience performing capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management for enterprise virtualization platforms.