Senior Infrastructure Virtualization Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Virtualization Engineer to design, implement, administer, and maintain enterprise virtualization and data center infrastructure. The role focuses on virtualization platforms, hypervisor management, virtual machines, storage, compute resources, high availability, and disaster recovery. The successful candidate will take technical ownership of virtualization infrastructure, ensure platform stability and performance, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, and contribute to infrastructure architecture and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Virtualization Infrastructure Management
Design, deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise virtualization platforms.
Administer and manage virtualization environments based on VMware vSphere/ESXi and network security based on NSX.
Manage hypervisors, virtual machines, clusters, resource pools, templates, and virtual networking.
Implement and maintain high availability (HA), fault tolerance, and workload migration mechanisms.
Perform virtualization platform upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, and configuration optimization.
Monitor resource utilization, capacity, performance, and infrastructure health.
Troubleshoot complex virtualization, hypervisor, and virtual machine issues.
Storage and Data Center Infrastructure
Manage and maintain enterprise storage platforms, including SAN, NAS, and software-defined storage.
Configure and administer storage connectivity, LUNs, datastores, multipathing, and storage provisioning.
Manage storage performance, capacity planning, and data availability.
Work with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and related storage technologies.
Collaborate with network and data center teams to maintain reliable infrastructure connectivity.
Support server hardware, compute resources, and data center infrastructure operations.
High Availability, Backup and Disaster Recovery
Design and implement infrastructure high-availability and redundancy solutions.
Develop and maintain backup, replication, and disaster recovery mechanisms.
Implement and test disaster recovery procedures and recovery plans.
Monitor backup jobs, replication health, and recovery readiness.
Define and maintain Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
Participate in infrastructure business continuity planning and disaster recovery exercises.
Infrastructure Monitoring and Automation
Implement and maintain infrastructure monitoring and alerting solutions.
Monitor hypervisor, virtual machine, storage, and hardware performance.
Automate routine infrastructure operations using PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible.
Develop scripts for provisioning, configuration management, reporting, and operational tasks.
Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
Security and Infrastructure Operations
Implement virtualization security best practices and infrastructure hardening.
Manage administrative access, RBAC, authentication, and privileged accounts.
Ensure secure configuration of hypervisors and management platforms.
Perform vulnerability remediation and patch management.