VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Verisign · Reston,Virginia,United States
About this role
**Verisign — VMware Infrastructure Engineer III (Enterprise Infrastructure)** Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet through trusted internet infrastructure services, including DNS. We’re seeking an experienced **VMware Infrastructure Engineer III** to own the engineering, administration, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of Verisign’s enterprise VMware virtualization environment. --- **What you’ll do** - Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure - Manage **VMware vSphere / ESXi**, **vCenter** clusters, networking, storage connectivity, and related virtualization technologies - Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, availability, and utilization; proactively address potential issues - Troubleshoot complex virtualization, server, storage, networking, and application infrastructure issues - Plan and execute VMware upgrades, patching, hardware refreshes, migrations, and lifecycle-management activities - Support modernization of the VMware environment, including changes tied to **VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)** and evolving VMware/Broadcom technologies - Participate in architecture and engineering decisions for virtualization and private-cloud infrastructure - Develop automation to improve provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational efficiency - Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and disaster-recovery documentation - Partner with storage, network, backup, security, OS, and application teams to support highly available enterprise services - Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, change management, and problem management - Identify opportunities to improve resiliency, redundancy, performance, security, and operational efficiency - Provide technical leadership/mentoring and serve as a subject-matter expert for virtualization technologies - Join an on-call rotation and support critical infrastructure incidents as required --- **Requirements** - Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or equivalent work experience) - **5+ years** technical infrastructure experience - Significant hands-on experience supporting **VMware vSphere** in a production enterprise environment - Strong experience with **VMware ESXi** and **vCenter Server** - Experience managing VMware clusters and capabilities such as **HA**, **DRS**, **vMotion**, and related technologies - Experience with enterprise server hardware and lifecycle management - Understanding of enterprise **SAN/storage** concepts and VMware storage integration - Strong networking knowledge for virtualization (e.g., VLANs, virtual switches, distributed switches, network redundancy) - Experience troubleshooting complex issues across compute, storage, networking, and operating systems - Experience performing VMware upgrades, migrations, patching, and platform lifecycle activities - Scripting/automation experience (e.g., **PowerShell/PowerCLI**, **Python**, or similar) - Strong technical documentation and communication skills - Ability to independently manage technical projects and operational responsibilities with limited supervision --- **Preferred qualifications** - Experience with **VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)** - Experience with **VMware NSX** and software-defined networking - Experience with **VMware Aria** (or other monitoring/automation platforms) - Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, or business
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