**_This position follows our hybrid workstyle policy: Expected to be in a Raymond James office location a minimum of 10-12 days a month._** **_Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future._** **Required Qualifications** + Experience administering VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in a large multi‑datacenter enterprise environment. + Strong hands‑on expertise with vSphere clustering, HA/DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Snapshots, and distributed switching. + Proficiency with PowerShell and PowerCLI scripting for day‑to‑day automation and operational tasks. + Experience with virtualization capacity planning, performance troubleshooting, and resource optimization. + Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts (VLANs, vDS, NIC teaming) and storage integrations (vSAN, SAN/NAS). + Hands-on experience with enterprise DR technologies (VMware SRM, Zerto, or equivalent). + Experience with monitoring tools such as vROps, Aria Operations, Log Insight, or similar. + Familiarity with ITIL processes and CMDB best practices **Key Responsibilities** + Deploy and maintain VMware vSphere environments across multiple datacenters, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability. + Manage ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, resource pools, distributed switches, and virtual networking configurations. + Oversee lifecycle management of virtualization infrastructure, including upgrades, patching, remediation, and hardware refresh cycles. + Monitor and analyze compute, memory, network, and storage utilization across virtualized environments. + Provide recommendations for capacity expansion, workload optimization, and resource allocation to support business growth. + Maintain performance baselines and proactively address bottlenecks. + Design, implement, and maintain DR strategies for virtualized workloads, including replication, failover, and failback procedures. + Manage solutions such as VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) + Maintain and enhance monitoring solutions (e.g., Aria Operations/vROps, Log Insight). + Produce capacity utilization reports, performance health metrics, and operational dashboards for leadership visibility. + Develop and maintain documentation for architecture, configurations, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and runbooks. + Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and analysts, offering guidance, training, and hands‑on mentorship. + Develop and maintain automation scripts using PowerShell and PowerCLI **Preferred Qualifications:** + Experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform, Packer, Ansible). + Experience with hybrid cloud VMware solutions such as VMware Cloud on AWS or Azure VMware Solution (AVS).