Sr. Systems Engineer

Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware

Job Summary:

This role is responsible for the design, stability, security, and ongoing operations of Americos enterprise virtual infrastructure supporting critical insurance, financial, and corporate systems.

This engineer must have deep hands-on experience with VMware vSphere and NSX, along with strong working knowledge of enterprise storage, backups, and networking. This position plays a key role in maintaining highly available, secure, and compliant infrastructure in a regulated insurance environment.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support VMware vSphere environments (ESXi, vCenter, clusters, HA, DRS) supporting production and nonproduction workloads
• Lead administration and optimization of VMware NSX for network virtualization, segmentation, and security controls
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning to support business growth and application demands for VMware, Storage, Compute.
• Implement and maintain NSX security policies, including microsegmentation, to support Americos security and compliance posture
• Support backup and recovery solutions for virtual environments, ensuring compliance with RPO/RTO requirements

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• 10 years of proven experience in VMware engineering with focus on automation engineering (could substitute for formal education).
• The ideal candidate has deep handson experience with VMware vSphere and NSX, along with strong working knowledge of enterprise storage, backups, and networking
• Experience with automation and scripting (PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python)
• Strong cross-functional collaboration capabilities and customer relationship management
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills to plan, recommend, implement, and monitor effective and efficient processes and to identify problems and implement solutions.

Education:

Four year college degree or equivalent years of relevant experience