VMware Administrator

Job Overview

We are looking for a skilled VMware Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize our virtualized infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands on experience in VMware vSphere environments, virtual machine provisioning, resource management, backup and recovery, and performance optimization.. Canidate must have atleast 5 years of experience working as a VMware Administrator

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server

• Provision, configure, and manage virtual machines according to business requirements

• Monitor VMware infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and resource utilization

• Perform virtual machine administration including deployment, migration, cloning, snapshots, and resource allocation

• Implement and maintain backup and disaster recovery strategies for virtual machines

• Perform VMware infrastructure upgrades, patches, and configuration changes

• Troubleshoot virtualization related issues and resolve performance, availability, and connectivity problems

• Manage VMware clusters, resource pools, datastores, and virtual networking

• Monitor storage, CPU, memory, and network utilization and perform performance tuning when required

• Maintain documentation of VMware infrastructure, configurations, procedures, and operational activities

• Implement security best practices and access controls across the virtual environment

• Collaborate with Linux, Windows, Network, Storage, and Security teams to support enterprise infrastructure

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server

• Experience in VM provisioning, configuration, migration, and lifecycle management

• Knowledge of VMware networking, storage, clusters, and resource management

• Experience with VM backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies

• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills

• Knowledge of virtualization security and best practices

• Understanding of enterprise storage and networking concepts

• Knowledge of PowerCLI or virtualization automation is an advantage

• VMware certification such as VCP is preferred

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in VMware administration or virtualization infrastructure

• Experience managing VMware environments in an enterprise or data center environment