Virtualization Administrator

Trigyn has a contractual opportunity for an Virtualization Administrator. This resource will be working Remotely.

This position is required to provide skilled, experienced Virtualization Administrator to ensure the stability, security, availability, and continuous improvement of its enterprise virtualization infrastructure. Under the supervision of the IT Infrastructure Team Lead, the consultant will administer, monitor, maintain, optimize, and troubleshoot VMware and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments, working closely with storage, backup, network, security, operating-system, application, and service-management teams.

The consultant will ensure reliable daily operations by resolving incidents and requests, implementing approved changes, maintaining platform health, security, capacity, and lifecycle compliance, automating routine tasks, and keeping operational documentation current.

The ideal candidate is a Virtualization Administrator with at least five (5) years of proven hands on experience supporting and operating enterprise-grade virtualization infrastructure in production environments. The candidate must have strong practical knowledge of VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), as well as exposure to alternative virtualization platforms such as Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM. A sound understanding of storage, networking, backup, server hardware, and operating-system dependencies is required.

The candidate must be able to work independently on assigned operational tasks, follow established procedures and change-management controls, troubleshoot issues methodically, communicate clearly with stakeholders, and escalates complex, architectural, or high-risk matters to senior engineers or the IT Infrastructure Team Lead.

Under the supervision and guidance of the IT Infrastructure Team Lead, the consultant will perform the following duties:

• Deployment and administration
  • Install, configure, and maintain VMware and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments; support Nutanix, Hyper-V and OLVM/KVM environments as required.
  • Implement virtualization solutions that meet the organization’s operational needs.
  • Perform VMware lifecycle patching, host updates, and approved configuration changes.
  • Apply security best practices and maintain compliance with applicable standards.
• Monitoring, optimization, and support
  • Monitor the health and performance of virtual machines and hosts.
  • Tune environments and proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
  • Troubleshoot virtualization issues and resolve incidents and problems while minimizing service disruption.
• Automation and improvement
  • Maintain scripts and tools that streamline administration, provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring.
  • Keep current with virtualization technologies and assess improvements, including through proof-of-concept deployments.
• Collaboration, documentation, and reporting
  • Work with IT teams, stakeholders, and vendors to plan and deliver virtualization projects under the Team Lead’s guidance.
  • Provide timely updates on project progress, issues, and resolutions, and guide junior colleagues in established practices.
  • Maintain infrastructure and process documentation, and report regularly on platform health, performance, and capacity.
• Other responsibilities
  • Provide ad hoc support within or beyond the team, including special projects or temporary service-delivery assignments, as requested by senior management.

The resource MUST have the following skills and experience:

• At least five (5) years of relevant experience supporting and operating enterprise virtualization infrastructure and related services.
• Proven hands-on experience…