Linux VMware System Engineer

Job Summary

The Linux VMware System Engineer – Server Migration role is a vital position within the Unix Engineering team, responsible for supporting the firm’s large scale server migration project, which involves relocating physical and virtual infrastructure between datacenter locations. This includes planning and executing migrations of ESXi hosts and virtual machines, managing iSCSI storage network configurations, working with LVM logic volume manager for storage provisioning and migration and ensuring seamless cutover with minimal downtime.

The role will encompass system configuration management, performance testing and tuning and application and service troubleshooting. Throughout the migration cycle the ideal candidate will be passionate about exploring and integrating technologies such as VMware, iSCSI network, Linux Salt Stack and open shift to drive continued evolution of our highly scalable compute platform.

• Own and engineer the Linux computer platform at client during the server migration project ensuring its stability, security and performance throughout all migration phases.
• Plan, coordinate and execute end to end server migrations from the source data center to target location including physical servers, ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Manage and migrate VMware ESXi environments, including vMotion, storage vMotion and cold migrations of VMs across data center sites with minimal disruption.
• Configure, troubleshoot and migrate iSCSI storage networks, ensuring proper connectivity, multipathing, CHAP authentication and performance between source and target environments.
• Manage LVM configurations during migration, including volume group export/import, logical volume resizing, snapshot based migrations and file system integrity validation.
• Develop and maintain automation tooling to streamline migration tasks, implement, scale and test infrastructure services for repeatable and reliable migration workflows.
• Develop and execute migration runbooks, rollback plans and validation checklists to ensure each migration wave is completed successfully and within defined maintenance windows.
• Collaborate with internal clients and partner engineering teams across the organization to understand their needs, assess migration readiness, and deliver effective solutions.
• Contribute to the evolution and integration of modern stack components, including Kubernetes, Open Stack and other emerging technologies, as part of post migration target architecture.
• Work closely with first and second level support organizations to perform in-depth technical troubleshooting and resolve complex issues arising during and after migration activities.
• Develop and implement technical solutions and process improvements to enhance system reliability, efficiency and scalability to the target data center environments.
• Manage and optimize virtualization environments using VMware (ESXi) and Red Hat Open Shift virtualization (CNV) with a focus on cross-site VM migration and replanting.
• Participate in the design and implementation of CI pipelines for infrastructure as code to support automated migration and provisioning workflows.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks and implement proactive measures to ensure optimal performance before, during and after each migration wave.
• Ensure adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements across Linux infrastructure throughout the migration lifecycle.

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering with minimum four years of hands on experience in a relevant role.
• Proven experience leading or participating in large scale data center or server migration projects including physical to virtual (P2V), virtual to virtual (V2V) and site to site migration.
• Experience with architecture, implementation and operation of Linux based compute environments, including deep understanding of Linux OS internals.
• Strong hands‑on expertise with VMware ESXi and vSphere, including ESXi host builds, VM provisioning, vMotion, storage vMotion, DRS, HA and cross-site ESXi and VM migration techniques.
• In depth knowledge of iSCSI storage networking,…