VMware Virtualization SME

Location: NYC (Hybrid 3 days onsite/week)

Visa Sponsorship: Talan does not sponsor U.S. work permits or employment visas.

We are seeking an experienced VMware Virtualization Engineer SME to join our team and support a large-scale virtualization platform for the Americas region. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on expertise in VMware technologies and a strong background in automation capacity management and infrastructure modernization.

Role and responsibilities

• Lead the migration to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) and manage the full VMware stack (vSphere NSX-T vSAN Aria Operations VRLI VRNI) for high availability and ultra low latency requirements.
• Monitor real-time capacity review and validate all incoming capacity increase requests and drive the replacement of end-of-life servers to ensure service continuity.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Ansible Terraform PowerCLI) to automate provisioning patching and lifecycle management across the virtualization layer.
• Deploy AI-driven monitoring and self-healing playbooks within Aria Operations to anticipate bottlenecks and resolve performance issues without human intervention.
• Provide Tier 2/3 support on a 24x7 on-call rotation including daily health checks OS and firmware upgrades and mandatory security patching.
• Participate in DR planning and testing maintaining RPO of 5 seconds or less and RTO of 15 minutes or less for critical workloads.

Qualifications :

• 5 years of experience with large-scale VMware environments (vSphere 8 NSX-T vSAN) including cloud-native migrations.
• Expert-level automation skills using PowerCLI Ansible Terraform vRealize Automation and PowerShell/Python scripting.
• Hands-on experience with Aria Operations VRLI and VRNI for performance monitoring log analytics and network insight.
• Solid understanding of enterprise storage (EMC/Isilon Pure Storage Dell/NetApp SAN iSCSI) and deep networking knowledge (TCP/IP VLANs NSX-T micro-segmentation).
• Experience applying AI ops concepts including predictive monitoring automated root cause analysis and intelligent capacity forecasting.
• VMware certifications preferred (VCP-CMA VCAP-CF); ITIL Foundation is a plus.

Companys Benefits

At Talan we invest in our employees well-being and empower them with benefits including:

• Competitive salary between USD $100000 - US$140000
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 8 paid holidays 5 sick days 2 personal days per year
• Company health dental and vision insurance plans FSA
• Voluntary STD and LTD
• Commuter/transit benefits

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time