VMware Administrator

Relevant years of experience required: 9+

Responsibilities:

VMware Infrastructure Administration:

• Manage and administer VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi hosts, clusters, and virtual machines.
• Maintain vCenter Server infrastructure and virtual datacenters, ensuring optimal platform availability and scalability.

vCenter Management:

• Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain vCenter Server.
• Monitor vCenter services, inventory, permissions, SSO, certificates, and overall platform health.
• Troubleshoot vCenter connectivity and performance issues.

VMware vSAN Administration:

• Deploy, configure, and manage vSAN clusters and storage policies.
• Monitor vSAN health, performance, capacity, and resynchronization activities.
• Resolve storage-related incidents and performance bottlenecks.

Virtual Machine Management:

• Provision, migrate, resize, clone, and decommission virtual machines.
• Perform VM performance tuning, resource optimization, and manage VM lifecycle activities.
• Support application and infrastructure teams during deployments.

Cluster & High Availability Management:

• Configure and manage VMware HA, DRS, vMotion, and Storage vMotion.
• Ensure cluster stability, workload balancing, and minimal downtime during maintenance.

Storage Administration:

• Manage VMFS, NFS, and vSAN datastores; monitor utilization and performance.
• Perform capacity planning and storage optimization.
• Resolve connectivity and multipathing issues.

Network Virtualization Administration:

• Configure vSwitches, Distributed Switches (vDS), Port Groups, and VMkernel adapters.
• Manage VLANs, NIC teaming, and network redundancy.
• Troubleshoot virtual networking issues.

Incident & Problem Management:

• Act as L3 escalation point for VMware-related incidents.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for recurring issues and troubleshoot ESXi host failures, vCenter issues, VM performance degradation, storage/networking issues, and HA/DRS failures.

Change & Upgrade Management:

• Execute VMware upgrades, patches, and firmware updates.
• Support hardware refresh and infrastructure transformation projects.
• Participate in CAB reviews, maintenance windows, and validate post-implementation functionality.

Documentation & Knowledge Management:

• Prepare SOPs, HLDs, LLDs, and operational runbooks.

• Maintain technical documentation and architecture diagrams.

• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions and mentor L1/L2 engineers.

• Technical Skills:

• VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, VMware vSAN

• VMware Aria Operations, VMware SRM

• High Availability (HA), DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion

• VMFS, NFS Storage, VMware Lifecycle Manager

• Virtual Networking (vDS, vSS)

• Windows & Linux Administration

• ITIL Incident, Problem & Change Management processes