VMware Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States; hybrid work schedule with an office-based role

Salary: $108,900–$147,300 annual base salary, with potential discretionary bonus and stock awards for eligible roles.

Company

hirify.global provides internet infrastructure services focused on the security, stability, and resiliency of the networked world, including DNS services.

What you will do

• Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter clusters, networking, storage connectivity, and related technologies.
• Monitor health, capacity, performance, availability, and utilization, proactively resolving issues and supporting highly available enterprise services.
• Plan and execute VMware upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, migrations, and lifecycle-management activities, including modernization associated with VMware Cloud Foundation and evolving VMware/Broadcom technologies.
• Troubleshoot complex compute, storage, networking, operating-system, and application infrastructure issues; participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and problem management.
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational efficiency; maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and disaster-recovery documentation.
• Contribute to virtualization and private-cloud architecture decisions, mentor engineers, serve as a virtualization subject-matter expert, and participate in an on-call rotation for critical incidents.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of technical infrastructure experience, including significant hands-on experience supporting VMware vSphere in a production enterprise environment.
• Strong experience with VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, clusters, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, and related technologies.
• Experience with enterprise server hardware and lifecycle management, including strong understanding of enterprise SAN/storage concepts and VMware storage integration.
• Strong understanding of virtualization networking, including VLANs, virtual switches, distributed switches, and network redundancy.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues across compute, storage, networking, and operating systems.
• Experience performing VMware upgrades, migrations, patching, and platform lifecycle activities.
• Experience with scripting or automation technologies such as PowerShell/PowerCLI, Python, or similar tools.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills, with the ability to independently manage technical projects and operational responsibilities with limited supervision.

Nice to have

• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware NSX, software-defined networking, VMware Aria, or other infrastructure monitoring and automation platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, or business-critical virtualization environments.
• Experience with Dell PowerEdge or comparable enterprise server platforms and enterprise SAN technologies and storage platforms.
• Familiarity with backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, business continuity, infrastructure-as-code, Git-based configuration management, or other automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with alternative virtualization or private-cloud technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Dynamic and flexible work environment with opportunities for career growth.
• Competitive benefits and equal-opportunity employment practices.
• Hybrid work schedule based in the Reston office.
• Discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance; certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary stock awards.