Lead VMware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build the automation and self-service provisioning model for the VMware estate, including vSphere VM provisioning, placement/resource-pool modules, cloud-init/cloudbase-init integration, and Ansible post-provisioning handoff
• Design Infrastructure as Code modules for VMware DRS affinity/anti-affinity rules, resource pools, and automation levels, as well as vSAN storage policies and cluster storage configuration
• Configure VMware SRM protection groups, recovery plans, and inventory mappings, along with VMware HCX site pairing, service mesh, network extension, and migration-profile templates to support disaster-recovery and workload-mobility automation
• Collaborate with the Network Architect on VMware NSX-T network segments, distributed firewall rules/groups/tags, and load balancing/NAT, providing VMware-specific placement and compute context
• Setup the integration pattern between VMware infrastructure and Azure VMware Solution, ensuring consistent identity and RBAC across hybrid environments, working with the Network Architect on ExpressRoute connectivity
• Implement testing and validation approaches appropriate to VMware's longer, environment-dependent test cycles, such as paired-site testing for HCX and failover testing for SRM, and design harnesses to support repeatable validation
• Assist in development of Terraform modules and wrappers for VMware resource types

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