About the Role
We are looking for a skilled VMware Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize our virtualized infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in VMware vSphere environments, virtual machine provisioning, resource management, backup and recovery, and performance optimization. Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience working as a VMware Administrator.
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Key Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server
- Provision, configure, and manage virtual machines according to business requirements
- Monitor VMware infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and resource utilization
- Perform virtual machine administration including deployment, migration, cloning, snapshots, and resource allocation
- Implement and maintain backup and disaster recovery strategies for virtual machines
- Perform VMware infrastructure upgrades, patches, and configuration changes
- Troubleshoot virtualization-related issues and resolve performance, availability, and connectivity problems
- Manage VMware clusters, resource pools, datastores, and virtual networking
- Monitor storage, CPU, memory, and network utilization and perform performance tuning when required
- Maintain documentation of VMware infrastructure, configurations, procedures, and operational activities
- Implement security best practices and access controls across the virtual environment
- Collaborate with Linux, Windows, Network, Storage, and Security teams to support enterprise infrastructure
Required Skills
- Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server
- Experience in VM provisioning, configuration, migration, and lifecycle management
- Knowledge of VMware networking, storage, clusters, and resource management
- Experience with VM backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
- Knowledge of virtualization security and best practices
- Understanding of enterprise storage and networking concepts
- Knowledge of PowerCLI or virtualization automation is an advantage
- VMware certification such as VCP is preferred
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in VMware administration or virtualization infrastructure
- Experience managing VMware environments in an enterprise or data center environment
