VMware Infrastructure Engineer

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services. We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career. We are seeking an experienced VMware Infrastructure Engineer III to join our Enterprise Infrastructure team. This position will be responsible for the engineering, administration, availability, performance, and lifecycle management of Verisign’s Enterprise VMware virtualization environment The Ideal candidate is a hands-on infrastructure engineer with strong VMware experience who can independently troubleshoot complex issues, perform platform upgrades and lifecycle and lifecycle activities, and help evolve the virtualization environment as technologies and business requirements change. This role will work closely with an experienced VMware engineer during a knowledge-transfer period to develop a deep understanding of the existing environment operational practices, architecture, and business-critical workloads. Responsibilities: • Engineer, administer, maintain, and support enterprise VMware virtualization infrastructure • Manage VMware vSphere, ESXi hosts, vCenter clusters, networking, storage connectivity, and associated virtualization technologies • Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, availability, and utilization and 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 the transition and modernization of the VMware environment, including changes associated with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and evolving VMware/Broadcom technologies • Participate in architecture and engineering decisions related to 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 • Work closely with storage, network, backup, security, operating-system, 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 and mentoring to other engineers and serve as a subject-matter expert for virtualization technologies • Participate in an on-call rotation and provide support for 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 environments in a production enterprise environment • Strong experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter Server • Experience managing VMware Clusters, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Schedule (DRS), vMotion, and related technologies • Experience with enterprise server hardware and lifecycle management • Understanding of enterprise SAN/storage concepts and VMware storage integration • Strong understanding of enterprise server hardware and lifecycle management • Understanding of Enterprise SAN/storage concepts and VMware storage integration • Strong understanding of networking con