Senior Infrastructure Engineer | $150k+

Feldspar & Flint LLC is a Recruiting & Staffing firm that specializes in operational strategy across core business functions.

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with deep VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and Cisco UCS expertise to own complex enterprise virtualization and data center infrastructure. This hands-on technical leadership role focuses on infrastructure engineering, platform upgrades, performance, reliability, and resolving challenging production issues.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise VMware Cloud Foundation environments, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, SDDC Manager, NSX, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation.
• Own VMware infrastructure lifecycle management, including platform upgrades, patching, compatibility assessments, firmware coordination, and technical remediation.
• Design, configure, and support Cisco UCS infrastructure, including X-Series, UCS 9508, Cisco Intersight, Fabric Interconnects, service profiles, and associated network and storage connectivity.
• Maintain highly available virtualization environments using VMware HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, host profiles, and effective resource allocation strategies.
• Lead hands-on infrastructure projects involving data center deployments, hardware refreshes, migrations, capacity planning, automation, and decommissioning.
• Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues across virtualization, compute, networking, SAN, storage, and hardware, serving as a senior technical escalation resource.
• Strengthen infrastructure resilience through performance monitoring, security hardening, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery planning, recovery testing, and configuration management.
• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure engineering initiatives, collaborating with Network, Storage, Security, Backup, and Application teams while developing architecture documentation, operational standards, and troubleshooting procedures.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on enterprise VMware engineering experience, including strong proficiency with VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and management of complex production virtualization environments.
• Practical experience with VCF ecosystem technologies, including SDDC Manager, NSX, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation, particularly supporting deployments, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
• Strong hands-on Cisco UCS and Cisco Intersight experience, with knowledge of blade and compute infrastructure, Fabric Interconnects, service profiles, firmware, and LAN/SAN integration.
• Broad enterprise data center engineering experience spanning compute, networking, SAN, storage, virtualization, hardware infrastructure, and high-availability systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically complex infrastructure projects, independently troubleshoot production issues, and contribute to migrations, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and security remediation.
• Typically 7+ years of relevant enterprise infrastructure engineering experience, with strong technical documentation skills, cross-functional collaboration, and availability for after-hours maintenance or escalation support.