Senior Virtualization Engineer

Trillium Professional is now seeking a Senior Virtualization Engineer in Richmond, VA!

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Virtualization Engineer to support and advance the enterprise virtualization environment. This contingent worker position will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of critical systems and infrastructure. The selected candidate will report to the Manager of the Systems and Operations Management team and will collaborate closely with technical staff to design, implement, and maintain virtualization solutions that meet organizational needs.

In addition to other occasional tasks, the candidate’s key responsibilities will be the following:

• Design, deploy, and maintain VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization across virtual infrastructures.
• Manage virtual networking (vSwitches, distributed switches) and storage configurations (VMFS, NFS, vSAN).
• Implement and maintain high-availability, fault-tolerance, clustering, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Oversee patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management for VMware components and related hardware.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization issues involving compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Create and enforce VM standards, policies, templates, and provisioning strategies.
• Monitor infrastructure health.
• Ensure security compliance by managing roles, permissions, certificates, and hardening VMware environments.
• Automate administrative tasks when possible.
• Collaborate with systems, network, and security teams on cross-functional infrastructure initiatives.
• Document architecture, configurations, procedures, and change management activities.
• Provide advanced support for production issues and mentor junior team members.

Pay is $54.00 an hour and up (commensurate with experience).

• -8+ years of hands-on experience administering VMware vSphere environments and Windows Server operating systems.
• -Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a closely related field;equivalent technical certification accepted.
• -Strong proficiency with ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual networking concepts.
• -Experience with VMware clustering, HA/DRS, snapshots, templates, and VM lifecycle management.
• -Solid understanding of storage technologies such as SAN, NAS, iSCSI, NFS, and/or vSAN.
• -Working knowledge of networking fundamentals as they apply to virtualization: VLANs, trunking, LACP, jumbo frames, and network segmentation.
• -Familiarity with Windows and/or Linux server administration in enterprise environments.
• -Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across compute, storage, and network layers.
• -Experience with Ansible, PowerCLI, Terraform or similar scripting languages for automation.
• -Working knowledge of backup and disaster recovery solutions for virtual environments.
• -An Understanding of security best practices, RBAC, certificates, and VMware hardening guidelines. Hands?on experience administering enterprise server hardware platforms (Dell, Cisco UCS, HPE, etc.).
• -Some data center experience or the willingness to learn.
• -Strong documentation, communication, and change-management skills.

• -12+ years of hands-on experience administering VMware vSphere environments and Windows Server operating systems.
• -Master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a closely related field.
• -Deep hands-on experience designing, scaling, and optimizing enterprise VMware environments.
• -Strong understanding of virtual networking (vDS, VLANs, LACP) and storage performance concepts.
• -Background in infrastructure architecture, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
• -Demonstrated ability to…