Senior IT VMware Systems Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Senior IT VMware Systems Engineer. This is a Long-Term Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:26-34415

Pay Range

$60 - $65/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support large-scale VMware virtualization environments (400–500 servers).
• Work on VMware vSphere 8 and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9).
• Perform real-time capacity monitoring and infrastructure health checks.
• Review and validate capacity enhancement requests (RITMs).
• Drive hardware lifecycle management and replacement of end-of-life servers.
• Support VMware platform migration, upgrades, patching, and production deployments.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure performance, availability, and capacity.
• Follow banking production change management and governance processes.
• Collaborate with global infrastructure, storage, networking, and application teams.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience

• Must-Have Skills: Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 8.
• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9) experience.
• Enterprise VMware infrastructure administration and support.
• Large-scale server infrastructure management.
• Capacity planning, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Banking / Financial Services domain experience.
• Understanding of production change management, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with VMware Aria Operations, NSX-T, and vSAN.
• Good to Have: PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Aria Operations, VRLI, and VRNI.
• VMware migration and infrastructure automation.
• ITIL / VMware certifications.
• Important Requirements:
• In-person interview is mandatory.
• Local candidates preferred.
• Must be comfortable working onsite 3 days per week in Jersey City, NJ.
• We are looking for an experienced VMware Systems Engineer / Virtualization SME with strong hands-on experience in VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Candidates must have strong Banking / Financial Services domain experience with an understanding of production change management, security, regulatory, and governance requirements.

Our client is a leading IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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