Position Title: Senior Aria/VCF Foundations Engineer
Location: PA - Pittsburgh, OH - Cleveland, AL - Birmingham, TX - Dallas, AZ - Phoenix, CO - Aurora
Work Status : 5 Days Onsite
Duration : Contract to Hire
Years Of Experience Required : 12+

Industry Background: Finance / Banking

Function of the Group : SRTE Event Management Crew / Site Reliability Technology Engineering We are responsible for managing the monitoring and event management platforms at Bank

Project : Provide operational support for enterprise VMware Aria and VCF Foundation platforms.

***This would position the role as a Senior Aria/VCF Foundations Engineer rather than simply an Aria administrator, which is likely what you'll need for a large deployment.***

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting and administering large-scale VMware Aria Operations environments, including extra-large nodes in active - warm cluster configurations deployed in multiple datacenters.
• 3+ years of experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Foundations components and operations.
• Strong experience managing and troubleshooting vCenter Server, ESXi, clusters, resource pools, and distributed networking.
• Experience with VMware Aria Operations, Aria Suite Lifecycle, Aria Operations for Networks, and Aria Automation (preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Ansible for infrastructure automation, configuration management, and operational tasks.
• Working knowledge of Linux (RHEL preferred), including basic commands-line operations, light troubleshooting, log analysis, light performance analysis, service management, package installations, and scripting.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Experience with VCF SDDC Manager operations, lifecycle management, upgrades, and patching.
• Knowledge of VMware NSX and vSAN administration.
• Experience with VMware Aria Suite components:
  • Aria Operations
  • Aria Operations for Logs
  • Aria Operations for Networks
  • Aria Automation
  • Aria Lifecycle
• Experience performing platform upgrades, capacity planning, health monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Scripting experience in PowerShell, Bash, Python, or Perl.
• Familiarity with REST APIs and automation integrations.
• Experience supporting environments with strict security and compliance requirements.
• Understanding of monitoring, observability, and alert management best practices.
• Experience working in enterprise ITSM environments using ServiceNow (SNOW) and Agile work tracking tools such as Jira.
• Familiarity with Archer or similar governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platforms.
  

Operational Responsibilities

• Provide operational support for enterprise VMware Aria and VCF Foundation platforms.
• Perform incident, problem, and change management activities.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for platform outages, performance issues, and integration failures.
• Execute platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management activities.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions to improve operational efficiency.
• Participate in capacity planning, health assessments, and architecture reviews.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, procedures, and runbooks.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, application, and engineering teams to support platform initiatives.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical enterprise environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within regulated financial services or banking environments is highly desirable.

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

• 5+ years of VMware Aria Operations administration in large-scale, multi-datacenter environments.
• 3+ years of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) experience.
• Strong VMware infrastructure expertise (vCenter, ESXi, clusters, networking).
• Experience with VMware Aria Suite products and automation tools.
• Hands-on Ansible automation experience.
• Linux (RHEL preferred) administration and troubleshooting skills.

FLEX SKILLS:

• VCF SDDC Manager, NSX, and vSAN experience.
• VMware Aria Suite product expertise.
• Platform lifecycle management, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Perl) and REST API integration.
• Experience in secure, compliance-driven enterprise environments.
• ServiceNow, Jira, and Archer (or similar GRC tools).

SOFT SKILLS:

• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

EDUCATION:

• High School Degree or bachelor’s degree in computer science/relevant field or equivalent work experience required.

Nice-to-Have Certifications

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
• VMware Cloud Foundation certification
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP)
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

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