Senior VMware Architect/Engineer

Insight Global is seeking a Senior VMware Architect/Engineer to join one of its investment banking clients. This individual will be responsible for the architecture, modernization, optimization, and support of a large-scale enterprise virtualization environment. The ideal candidate possesses deep VMware expertise, strong infrastructure engineering experience, and the ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on with implementation and troubleshooting. This person will partner with infrastructure, cloud, storage, networking, and security teams to drive virtualization strategy, platform modernization efforts, disaster recovery readiness, and operational excellence across mission-critical environments. This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week onsite., *Lead architecture, design, and engineering efforts across the enterprise VMware platform *Manage and optimize VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Cloud Foundation environments *Support VMware Aria Operations for monitoring, performance management, and capacity planning *Drive platform modernization and infrastructure lifecycle initiatives *Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability assessments *Design and support enterprise disaster recovery solutions utilizing Zerto and/or VMware SRM *Partner with application, storage, networking, and cloud teams to support critical business platforms *Support Windows Server infrastructure including Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP *Manage NetApp, Dell PowerScale, SAN, and NAS storage environments *Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis efforts for complex infrastructure incidents *Develop infrastructure standards, best practices, and architectural roadmaps *Automate operational processes wherever possible using scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools

*12+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience *8+ years of VMware engineering and architecture experience *Deep expertise with VMware vSphere 8.x, ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Cloud Foundation *Strong experience with VMware Aria Operations *Advanced Windows Server expertise including AD, DNS, and DHCP *Experience supporting NetApp, Dell PowerScale, SAN, and NAS environments *Disaster Recovery experience with Zerto and/or Site Recovery Manager (SRM) *Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical enterprise environments *Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning experience *Experience leading platform modernization initiatives

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

*PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform experience *VMware NSX and/or vSAN expertise *Azure and AWS cloud experience *Financial services, banking, or other highly regulated industry experience *VMware certifications such as VCP, VCAP, or VCDX

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.