Storage and Virtualization Engineer – Hybrid – 12-Month Contract
Our client, a large public sector organization, is seeking a Storage and Virtualization Engineer for a hybrid, 12-month contract role. The consultant will lead and support enterprise-level infrastructure projects with a focus on storage, virtualization (VMware SDDC), and hyper-converged systems.
Our client, a large public sector organization, is seeking a Storage and Virtualization Engineer for a hybrid, 12-month contract role. The consultant will lead and support enterprise-level infrastructure projects with a focus on storage, virtualization (VMware SDDC), and hyper-converged systems.
Job Description
The Storage and Virtualization Engineer is responsible for the design, development, configuration, optimization, and maintenance of server, storage, and virtualization environments. This role also includes project management responsibilities and the development of architectural documentation and automation solutions aligned with enterprise IT strategies.
Responsibilities
- Lead, configure, maintain, and optimize storage, hyper-converged, and server hardware and VMware SDDC software
- Recommend hardware/server requirements and build application environments
- Plan, oversee, and document infrastructure projects to ensure alignment with project goals and timelines
- Provide senior-level architectural solutions and automation strategies for virtualization implementations
- Ensure application, component, and service conformance with established architecture standards
- Perform solution assessments and design complex, multi-phased migration projects
- Develop and maintain architectural diagrams covering enterprise, business, data, security, and/or technology domains
- Implement, provision, and troubleshoot storage, server, and virtualization infrastructure
- Manage performance metrics and capacity projections
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Hyper-Converged compute environments and multi-tiered storage architectures
- 8+ years of experience with enterprise storage solutions such as Dell EMC VPLEX, VxRail, VxRack, vSAN, ScaleIO, Pure Storage, Rubrik
- 8+ years of hands-on experience configuring and designing VMware SDDC software stack
- 8+ years of experience with PowerShell, Azure ARM templates, and Azure CLI
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience in education industry projects
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills
- Proven ability to work across heterogeneous systems and platforms
- Exposure to Cisco ACI and other application provisioning and hosting technologies
Work Location & Schedule
- Hybrid schedule (specific on-site expectations to be confirmed)
- 12-month contract
- W2 only; no visa sponsorship available