VMware Infrastructure Engineer

Short company description

At Evolve today we offer complex Human Resources services, from business consulting to headhunting and recruitment. We have extensive experience in finding talented professionals, for a variety of industries, especially in the IT sector.
We started with a dream: to create a Human Resources company with a strong, unique profile on the market, deeply shaped by our core values: commitment to performance, professionalism, a balanced approach and deep satisfaction for our clients.
From that moment, we nurtured special relationships and we continuously evolved, being flexible, but staying true to our values. We aim higher and higher and we invite you to EVOLVE with us!

Requirements

For our business partner—an established US-based company specializing in server management, security, networking, and web development—we are looking for a VMware Infrastructure Engineer.

In this role, you will be at the core of the company''s virtualization and data center infrastructure. Your mission will include deploying and maintaining VMware environments across multiple sites, provisioning and presenting enterprise SAN storage to ESXi, and supporting site recovery and business continuity. You will help ensure the performance, stability, and availability of the systems the business runs on.

You''ll work closely with an experienced infrastructure team to plan capacity, troubleshoot performance end-to-end—from the array through to the hypervisor—and support the company''s hybrid on-prem and cloud setups.

This is a fully remote, B2B opportunity, open only to candidates based in Romania

Ready to take ownership of a production VMware and storage environment? Apply now and let''s explore whether this opportunity is the right match for you.

What you need to bring

VMware (core skill)

Hands-on production experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter / vSphere: installation, configuration, upgrades, and patching
Practical knowledge of clustering (HA, DRS, vMotion), datastores and virtual networking
Experience with — or solid familiarity with — Site Recovery Manager / Live Site Recovery and Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)

Enterprise storage presented to VMware

Hands-on experience with IBM Storage (FlashSystem / Storwize / SVC), Dell Compellent, EMC VNXe, or comparable enterprise arrays
Working knowledge of Fibre Channel and iSCSI, and how storage is provisioned and presented to ESXi hosts

Ways of working

Able to work independently from deployment through to troubleshooting
Writes clear documentation
Communicates well with both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

Cisco UCS experience — used across all of our sites, so this is a real plus
AWS EC2: deploying and managing instances (instance types, AMIs, key pairs, EBS volumes and snapshots), basic VPC / subnets/security groups, and VMware-to-AWS migrations (AWS Application Migration Service, VM Import/Export)
NFS, multipathing on ESXi (PSP / Round Robin), array-side snapshots and replication, VAAI
Backup and copy data management tools: Rubrik, IBM Storage Defender Copy Data Management, or similar
Certifications: VMware VCP-DCV, IBM Storage certifications, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or SysOps Administrator
Scripting and automation: PowerCLI, PowerShell, AWS CLI
Windows Server and Linux administration
Hybrid setups (on-prem VMware + AWS) or VMware Cloud on AWS

Responsibilities

What you''ll do

Install, configure, upgrade, and patch VMware ESXi and vCenter / vSphere
Build and run clusters: HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion
Manage storage virtualization in vSphere: VMFS and NFS datastores, datastore clusters / Storage DRS, thin vs. thick provisioning, snapshots
Design and maintain virtual networking: vSwitches and Distributed Switches, port groups, VLANs
Handle the full VM lifecycle: templates, cloning, P2V/V2V migrations, performance troubleshooting
Provision storage end-to-end for ESXi: create LUNs/volumes, host mapping, zoning/masking, present them as VMware datastores
Do capacity planning, performance monitoring, and latency troubleshooting between ESXi and the array
Deploy and manage EC2 instances: instance types, AMIs, key pairs, EBS volumes and snapshots
Migrate or import workloads from VMware to AWS (AWS Application Migration Service, VM Import/Export)
Document what you build, clearly enough that someone else can operate it