Principal VMware Systems Support

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CT

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Virtual Assistant

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1 week ago

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2 weeks ago

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No stated closing date

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About the role

What success looks like in this role: U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required. The Principal VMware Systems Support role serves as the technical lead for the design, implementation, modernization, migration, administration, and optimization of enterprise VMware infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. This position is heavily focused on infrastructure project execution, workload transformation initiatives, disaster recovery planning, and operational excellence. The successful candidate will lead complex infrastructure projects involving VMware platforms, storage, compute, networking, cloud integration, workload migrations, and business continuity solutions. The role requires extensive experience implementing enterprise virtualization best practices, automating administrative processes through scripting and orchestration tools, and developing operational runbooks that improve reliability, efficiency, and supportability. In addition to providing advanced systems administration support, this individual will serve as a trusted technical advisor, leading infrastructure modernization initiatives, establishing standards, and ensuring VMware environments meet business, security, compliance, availability, and recovery requirements. Core Responsibilities Leadership & Strategy Provides technical leadership for enterprise VMware infrastructure initiatives across multiple business units and locations. Serves as a senior technical resource and mentor, providing guidance to systems administrators, engineers, and project teams. Establishes infrastructure standards, operational best practices, governance models, and support frameworks. Drives infrastructure modernization strategies and aligns technical roadmaps with business objectives. Evaluates emerging virtualization, cloud, automation, and disaster recovery technologies and recommends adoption where appropriate. Project Delivery & Infrastructure Modernization Leads end- to- end planning, design, implementation, and execution of complex infrastructure projects. Develops and executes modernization strategies for VMware-based environments supporting enterprise workloads. Leads workload migration initiatives between legacy and modernized infrastructure platforms, including: Legacy to next-generation on-premises environments On-premises to cloud platforms Hybrid cloud transformation projects Creates migration roadmaps, implementation schedules, dependency analysis, cutover plans, rollback procedures, and validation criteria. Coordinates project activities across infrastructure, security, application, storage, networking, and business teams. Conducts architecture assessments and provides recommendations to improve performance, scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency. Ensures successful operational transition of newly implemented solutions into production support teams. VMware Infrastructure & Technical Leadership Designs, implements, and supports enterprise VMware environments including: VMware vSphere ESXi vCenter vSAN VMware clustering technologies Provides expert guidance on infrastructure architecture, capacity planning, performance optimization, and lifecycle management. Leads troubleshooting and root cause analysis of critical production incidents affecting VMware infrastructure. Develops and validates high-availability architectures supporting enterprise business requirements. Partners with security teams to ensure compliance with corporate, regulatory, and industry standards. Automation & Optimization Drives automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency, system consistency, and service reliability. Leverages scripting and automation technologies including PowerCLI , PowerShell, Python, Ansible, and infrastructure automation platforms. Designs and implements automated provisioning, monitoring, compliance validation, patching, reporting, and remediation processes. Optimizes enterprise virtual environments through performance tuning, capacity man

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