Senior VMware / Hypervisor Engineer

Job Title: Senior VMware / Hypervisor Engineer

Location: Fremont, CA (Onsite 5 days/week)

Duration: 6–12 months (Contract‑to‑Hire)

About the Role

Seeking a Senior VMware / Hypervisor Engineer to operate and maintain mission‑critical private cloud infrastructure in a 24/7 environment. This role focuses on Windows Server administration, VMware engineering, and PowerShell automation, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across global production environments.

You will design, implement, and administer VMware and Windows environments, lead automation initiatives, and provide capacity planning, performance optimization, and incident response. This is an Infrastructure/Site Reliability Engineer role—not application SRE or DevOps—requiring deep expertise in virtualization and private cloud operations.

Key Responsibilities

Own and manage VMware vSphere (6.x+) and vCenter environments

Administer Windows Server (2012 R2–2022) and core services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS)

Build and maintain virtual machines and virtualization infrastructure

Develop automation solutions using PowerShell / PowerCLI

Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and preventive maintenance

Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems

Participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation to ensure uptime and reliability

Must‑Have Skills

VMware ESXi (primary skillset)

VMware vSphere & vCenter

Hyper‑V and other hypervisors

Private Cloud (non‑AWS) environments

Strong PowerShell scripting / PowerCLI expertise

Minimum 8–9 years of experience in VMware/Hypervisor engineering

Preferred Experience

Deep, hands‑on VMware expertise (non‑negotiable)

Proven background supporting mission‑critical, always‑on environments

Strong understanding of virtualization at infrastructure/system level

Ability to own production reliability end‑to‑end

Mindset focused on automation and operational efficiency