Virtualization / Automation Engineer (Senior)

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior engineering owner for SDDC platforms, defining architecture, configuration
• Design, configure, maintain, and optimize VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments, including
• Manage platform patching, upgrades, certificates, capacity planning, performance monitoring
• Engineer and maintain vSAN clusters, storage policies, and fault domains, troubleshooting
• Design and administer VMware NSX components, including network segments, transport zones, gateways
• Manage Site Recovery Manager (SRM) protection groups and recovery plans, automate failover and

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or
• At least eight years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter, along with vSAN, NSX, SRM, or
• Demonstrated experience developing or maintaining infrastructure automation and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restoration, capacity
• Active Secret security clearance or higher is required.

🎁 Benefits

• Annual salary: $140,000–$170,000, depending on the selected candidate's knowledge, skills
• Remote work: Remote position, with candidates in the Chicago, Illinois, area preferred.
• Employment type: Full-time.
• Contract period: The anticipated period of performance runs from March 1, 2027, through February
• Technical impact: Opportunity to lead enterprise virtualization engineering, infrastructure
• Healthcare coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, and other employee benefits were not