Senior IT VMware Systems Engineer - F2F interview

Position: Senior IT VMware Systems Engineer
Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Interview: In-person interview required
Preference: Local candidates preferred

Job Description

The client is looking for a Senior VMware Systems Engineer with strong hands-on experience in VMware vSphere 8, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9), and enterprise virtualization infrastructure.

The resource will manage a large-scale banking infrastructure environment consisting of approximately 400–500 servers, focusing on infrastructure monitoring, capacity management, hardware refresh, VMware platform administration, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support VMware vSphere 8, VCF 9, ESXi, and vCenter environments.

• Perform real-time capacity monitoring, performance analysis, and infrastructure optimization.

• Review and validate capacity-related RITMs before approving resource increases.

• Drive replacement of aging/EOL servers, including deployment and production migration.

• Support VMware infrastructure modernization, migration, and lifecycle management.

• Work with Aria Operations, NSX-T, vSAN, VRLI, and VRNI.

• Automate infrastructure operations using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.

• Provide Tier 2/3 production support and participate in incident, change, and release management.

• Follow banking production change windows, security, regulatory, and governance requirements.

• Collaborate with global IT teams and support the Follow-the-Sun (FTS) operating model.

Required Skills

• 5–7+ years of hands-on VMware infrastructure experience.

• Strong experience with VMware vSphere 8 and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

• VCF 9 experience preferred.

• Experience managing large-scale enterprise VMware environments (400–500 servers or comparable).

• Strong experience in capacity monitoring, performance management, and server lifecycle management.

• Hands-on experience with Aria Operations, NSX-T, and vSAN.

• Experience with PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.

• Previous Banking / Financial Services experience is highly important.

• Understanding of production change management, security, compliance, and governance.

Preferred Skills

• VMware VCP / VCAP certifications.

• Experience with enterprise storage (Dell, EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage).

• Knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, VLANs, and routing.

• Experience with AI-driven monitoring and infrastructure automation.

• ITIL certification.