Job Title: Virtualization Engineer (VMware) Location: Hybrid in Multiple Locations: Cincinnati/Columbus, OH | Tampa, FL Duration: 6+ months Contract to Hire Job Description : Roles & Responsibilities: Understanding of complex VMware environments, which includes VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, NSX, VRA, VRops and VMware ESXi hosts. Implement and maintain VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High Availability (HA) configurations using Site Recovery Manager(SRM) to maximize uptime and resource efficiency.

Manage VMware vSAN (Virtual SAN) for scalable and high-performance storage solutions. Deploy and configure VMware vSphere, including setting up ESXi hosts, creating and managing virtual machines, configuring vSAN and configuring virtual networks including vSphere Distributed switch(vds). Years of Experience: 5 years in VMWare administration Exposure to VMWare Tanzu based containerization Exposure to management of virtualization and micro-segmentation, multi-tenancy ensuring secure and efficient network management.

Exposure to other virtualization environments like Hyper-V and Nutanix Exposure to storage technologies like SCSI, iSCSI, EMC, VxRail management, Network technologies including pass through configuration Exposure to VMware tools such as VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) to analyze performance metrics and optimize resource allocation. Identify opportunities for closed loop automation Managing VMWare lifecycle management including VMware Tools and VM Hardware upgrades to ensure compatibility and enhance virtual machine performance. Exposure to backup of VMWare using tools like Cohesity and NetBackup Exposure to managing large VMWare environments spread globally with high performance requirements Good knowledge of ITIL practice.

Must have skills: Vmware vRA, vROps, HyperV Good to have skills: Windows, Azure, OCI.