VMware Engineer

6-12+ Month Contract (project up to 3 years)

Location - Downers Grove, Princeton, NJ or Quincy, MA (2 days a week onsite in one of these locations)

Our client is looking to add a VMware Cloud Engineer to support a large-scale virtualization environment with 5,000+ VMs. This role will focus on VMware administration, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS, on-prem to cloud migrations, hybrid cloud connectivity, and infrastructure troubleshooting.

• Manage and support VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments.
• Lead migrations from on-prem VMware infrastructure to AWS and NC2.
• Support and optimize large-scale environments with 5,000+ virtual machines.
• Troubleshoot virtualization, storage, networking, and cloud connectivity issues.
• Configure and support hybrid cloud networking, VPNs, routing, and connectivity.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and network teams on modernization initiatives.

• 5-8+ years of VMware engineering experience.
• Strong expertise with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter.
• Experience migrating VMware workloads to AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience supporting large enterprise virtual environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, AWS, Nutanix NC2, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Migration, Networking, Storage, Power Shell, PowerCLI.

Primary Focus: VMware, NC2 on AWS, Cloud Migration, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity, and Infrastructure Support.

The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($55-57/hr). Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.