Virtualization & Storage Engineer

For our business partner—an established US-based company specializing in server management, security, networking, and web development—we are looking for a Virtualization & Storage Engineer (VMware / AWS EC2 / Enterprise Storage).

In this role, you will be at the core of the company's virtualization and data center infrastructure. Your mission will include designing, deploying, and maintaining VMware environments, provisioning and presenting enterprise SAN storage to ESXi, and extending workloads into AWS through EC2. You will help ensure the performance, stability, and availability of the systems the business runs on.

This is a fully remote, B2B opportunity, open only to candidates based in Romania

Ready to take ownership of a production VMware and storage environment? Apply now and let's explore whether this opportunity is the right match for you.

What you'll do

• Install, configure, upgrade, and patch VMware ESXi and vCenter / vSphere

• Build and run clusters: HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion

• Manage storage virtualization in vSphere: VMFS and NFS datastores, datastore clusters / Storage DRS, thin vs thick provisioning, snapshots

• Design and maintain virtual networking: vSwitches and Distributed Switches, port groups, VLANs

• Handle the full VM lifecycle: templates, cloning, P2V/V2V migrations, performance troubleshooting

• Provision storage end-to-end for ESXi: create LUNs/volumes, host mapping, zoning/masking, present them as VMware datastores

• Do capacity planning, performance monitoring, and latency troubleshooting between ESXi and the array

• Deploy and manage EC2 instances: instance types, AMIs, key pairs, EBS volumes and snapshots

• Migrate or import workloads from VMware to AWS (AWS Application Migration Service, VM Import/Export)

• Document what you build, clearly enough that someone else can operate it

What you need to bring

VMware (core skill, strong level)

• Several years of hands-on work with ESXi and vCenter / vSphere in production

Enterprise storage presented to VMware (required)

• Hands-on experience with IBM Storage (FlashSystem / Storwize / SVC), Dell Compellent, EMC VNXe, or comparable enterprise arrays

• Fibre Channel and iSCSI (ideally NFS as well), including multipathing (PSP / Round Robin) on ESXi

AWS EC2 (required, working level)

• Basic AWS networking: VPC, subnets, security groups, Elastic IPs

• Basic IAM awareness and cost-conscious sizing

Ways of working

• Able to work independently from design through deployment and troubleshooting

• Writes clear documentation

• Communicates well with both technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

• Certifications: VMware VCP-DCV, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or SysOps Administrator, IBM Storage certifications

• Array-side snapshots and replication, VAAI

• Backup tools for VMware: Veeam, Commvault, or similar

• Scripting and automation: PowerCLI, PowerShell, AWS CLI

• Windows Server and Linux administration

• Hybrid setups (on-prem VMware + AWS) or VMware Cloud on AWS