VMware Engineer

6-12+ Month Contract (project up to 3 years)

Location - Downers Grove,IL, Princeton, NJ or Quincy, MA (2 days a week onsite in one of these locations)

Our client is looking to add a VMware Cloud Engineer to support a large-scale virtualization environment with 5,000+ VMs. This role will focus on VMware administration, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS, on-prem to cloud migrations, hybrid cloud connectivity, and infrastructure troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

Manage and support VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments.

Lead migrations from on-prem VMware infrastructure to AWS and NC2.

Support and optimize large-scale environments with 5,000+ virtual machines.

Troubleshoot virtualization, storage, networking, and cloud connectivity issues.

Configure and support hybrid cloud networking, VPNs, routing, and connectivity.

Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and network teams on modernization initiatives.

Requirements

5-8+ years of VMware engineering experience.

Strong expertise with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.

Experience migrating VMware workloads to AWS.

Hands-on experience with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).

Strong understanding of cloud networking and hybrid connectivity.

Experience supporting large enterprise virtual environments.

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Key Technologies

VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, AWS, Nutanix NC2, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Migration, Networking, Storage, PowerShell, PowerCLI.

Primary Focus: VMware, NC2 on AWS, Cloud Migration, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity, and Infrastructure Support.

The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($55-57/hr). Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.