Virtualization Infrastructure Architect

EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

This Position is: Hybrid (Brentwood TN)

Travel Requirements: Travel up to 10% (To facilities)

Position Summary

The Virtual Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the architecture design and ongoing optimization of the organizations virtual infrastructure environment with a strong focus on VMware and Nutanix platforms hyperconverged infrastructure and vRealize Operations (vROps). This role provides technical leadership for highly available scalable and secure virtual environments supporting missioncritical business and clinical systems. The architect establishes standards leads modernization initiatives and partners closely with infrastructure cloud storage network and security teams.

Key Responsibilities Architecture & Design

• Lead the design and evolution of enterprise VMware vSphere environments including ESXi vCenter and associated components.
• Architect and standardize hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions (e.g. VMware vSANbased platforms) to support performance resilience and scalability requirements.
• Define reference architectures standards and best practices for virtual compute storage and management platforms.
• Ensure infrastructure designs align with organizational security compliance and availability requirements.

Operations & Optimization

• Own and optimize the use of vRealize Operations (vROps) for performance monitoring capacity management proactive alerting and trend analysis.
• Establish and refine performance baselines capacity models and forecasting using vROps analytics.
• Identify and remediate performance bottlenecks resource contention and configuration risks across the virtual environment.
• Partner with operations teams to improve monitoring incident response and root cause analysis.

Platform Engineering & Lifecycle Management

• Lead platform lifecycle activities including upgrades patching strategies hardware refreshes and technology roadmaps.
• Evaluate new VMware and HCI capabilities and translate them into actionable implementation plans.
• Drive infrastructure automation and consistency through templating standards and repeatable build patterns.
• Support disaster recovery business continuity and highavailability strategies across virtual platforms.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Act as a technical escalation point and mentor for infrastructure and operations teams.
• Collaborate with application database and cloud teams to align infrastructure capabilities with workload requirements.
• Participate in architecture reviews technical review boards and infrastructure governance processes.
• Provide clear documentation diagrams and executivelevel summaries for complex technical designs.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure with significant handson experience in VMware and Nutanix based virtual environments.
• Strong expertise in VMware vSphere vCenter and related core components.
• Proven experience designing and supporting hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions including storage and performance considerations.
• Deep working knowledge of vRealize Operations (vROps) for monitoring capacity planning and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of enterprise compute storage and networking concepts in virtualized environments.
• Experience supporting highly available 24x7 production systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• VMware and Nutanix certifications (VCP VCAP NCP NCA or equivalent).
• Experience integrating virtual infrastructure with public or hybrid cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with automation tools scripting or infrastructureascode concepts.
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g. healthcare financial services) with strong uptime and compliance requirements.
• Strong documentation presentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Key Competencies

• Systems thinking and architectural problem solving
• Performance and capacity optimization mindset
• Strong operational discipline balanced with forwardlooking design
• Ability to translate technical detail into businessrelevant outcomes