VMware Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking an experienced VMware Infrastructure Engineer III to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team. This position will be responsible for the engineering, administration, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of Verisign’s Enterprise VMware virtualization environment

The Ideal candidate is a hands-on infrastructure engineer with strong VMware experience who can independently troubleshoot complex issues, perform platform upgrades and lifecycle and lifecycle activities, and help evolve the virtualization environment as technologies and business requirements change.

This role will work closely with an experienced VMware engineer during a knowledge-transfer period to develop a deep understanding of the existing environment operational practices, architecture, and business-critical workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure
• Manage VMware vSphere, ESXi hosts, vCenter clusters, networking, storage connectivity, and associated virtualization technologies
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, availability, and utilization and proactively address potential issues
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization, server, storage, networking, and application infrastructure issues
• Plan and execute VMware upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, migrations, and lifecycle-management activities
• Support the transition and modernization of the VMware environment, including changes associated with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and evolving VMware/Broadcom technologies
• Participate in architecture and engineering decisions related to virtualization and private-cloud infrastructure
• Develop automation to improve provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational efficiency
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and disaster-recovery documentation
• Work closely with storage, network, backup, security, operating-system, and application teams to support highly available enterprise services
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and problem management
• Identify opportunities to improve resiliency, redundancy, performance, security, and operational efficiency
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers and serve as a subject-matter expert for virtualization technologies
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide support for critical infrastructure incidents as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent work experience 
• 5+ years technical infrastructure experience 
• Significant hands-on experience supporting VMware vSphere environments in a production enterprise environment
• Strong experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter Server
• Experience managing VMware Clusters, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Schedule (DRS), vMotion, and related technologies
• Experience with enterprise server hardware and lifecycle management
• Understanding of enterprise SAN/storage concepts and VMware storage integration
• Strong understanding of enterprise server hardware and lifecycle management
• Understanding of Enterprise SAN/storage concepts and VMware storage integration
• Strong understanding of networking concepts as they relate to virtualization, including VLANs, virtual switches, distributed switches, and network redundancy
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues spanning 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
• Ability to independently manage technical projects and operational responsibilities with limited supervision

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Experience with VMware NSX and software-defined networking
• Experience with VMware Aria products 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
• Experience with enterprise SAN technologies and storage platforms
• Familiarity with backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and business-continuity technologies
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, git-based configuration management, or other automation frameworks
• Familiarity with alternative virtualization or private-cloud technologies is a plus

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $108,900 - $147,300.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.