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# Senior VMware Analyst

- **Company:** Raymond James Financial, Inc.
- **Location:** St. Petersburg, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Link Aggregation (Ethernet), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Configuration Management Databases, Disaster Recovery, VMware ESX Servers, Monitoring of Systems, Network Virtualization, PowerCLI, Windows PowerShell, Ansible, Vrealize Operations Manager (VROPS), Storage Virtualization, VCloud, Virtual Local Area Networks, VMware VSphere, System Availability, Software Troubleshooting, HybridCloud, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Vcenter, Terraform, Vmware
- **Published:** May 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g1ry4o

## About the Role

+ Experience administering VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in a large multi-datacenter enterprise environment.

 + Strong hands-on expertise with vSphere clustering, HA/DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Snapshots, and distributed switching.

 + Proficiency with PowerShell and PowerCLI scripting for day-to-day automation and operational tasks.

 + Experience with virtualization capacity planning, performance troubleshooting, and resource optimization.

 + Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts (VLANs, vDS, NIC teaming) and storage integrations (vSAN, SAN/NAS).

 + Hands-on experience with enterprise DR technologies (VMware SRM, Zerto, or equivalent).

 + Experience with monitoring tools such as vROps, Aria Operations, Log Insight, or similar.

 + Familiarity with ITIL processes and CMDB best practices, + Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Packer, Ansible).

 + Experience with hybrid cloud VMware solutions such as VMware Cloud on AWS or Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

## Description

+ Deploy and maintain VMware vSphere environments across multiple datacenters, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability.

 + Manage ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, resource pools, distributed switches, and virtual networking configurations.

 + Oversee lifecycle management of virtualization infrastructure, including upgrades, patching, remediation, and hardware refresh cycles.

 + Monitor and analyze compute, memory, network, and storage utilization across virtualized environments.

 + Provide recommendations for capacity expansion, workload optimization, and resource allocation to support business growth.

 + Maintain performance baselines and proactively address bottlenecks.

 + Design, implement, and maintain DR strategies for virtualized workloads, including replication, failover, and failback procedures.

 + Manage solutions such as VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

 + Maintain and enhance monitoring solutions (e.g., Aria Operations/vROps, Log Insight).

 + Produce capacity utilization reports, performance health metrics, and operational dashboards for leadership visibility.

 + Develop and maintain documentation for architecture, configurations, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and runbooks.

 + Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and analysts, offering guidance, training, and hands-on mentorship.

 + Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell and PowerCLI


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