Senior VMware Engineer

The opportunity

Do you love being the content expert when it comes to VMware infrastructure and do you have powerful skills to help develop our product to the next level?

The team

We are the VMware Infra team. We are responsible for providing a holistic view of all hosted systems as well as maintaining an efficient and secure infrastructure that offers uninterrupted service for our customers. We ensure business continuity, but we also focus on the automation, security and compliance of the VMware hosting platform.
In our DevOps team you work closely with a Product Owner and fellow VMware Engineers. The team is diverse. You have about 7 male and female colleagues of different ages and each with their own expertise and degree of experience. Knowledge plays a major role and we like to learn from each other. We work hard (sometimes even outside office hours if the situation demands it), but we also make sure that we can get away from it all together to find our balance. We regularly organize both informal and professional outings.
We work with the latest versions of VMwares Private Cloud environment, in which several thousand Linux and Windows servers run, containing applications of all parts of the company.
We use technologies like: VMware Cloud Foundation, ESXi, vSAN, VxRail HyperConverged Infrastructure, NSX network virtualization, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, Veeam and PPDM.

Roles and responsibilities

In this position you are mainly working on simplifying the architecture of the environment and increasing the security by implementing micro segmentation as part of a zero-trust architecture.

The main tasks will be

• Translate business requirements in high performant and cost-efficient designs.

• Assist architecture in defining a strategy for zero-trust

• Assist in designing a micro segmentation solution based on NSX

• Implement that micro-segmentation design in the environment

How to succeed

You are an inquisitive and enthusiastic engineer who is not afraid to be involved in complex technical issues. You live for infrastructure and security and love to be at the helm. This way you come to the best decisions with ownership, control and a good dose of responsibility. You take initiative if you think things can be improved. For the more junior engineers in your team, you are happy to take on the role of coach.

In addition, you of course have

• Several years of design experience with VMware virtualization technologies like ESXi, vSAN and the, vRealize Suite (vRops, vRA/vRO and vRNi)

• Several years of design experience with hyperconverged infrastructure solutions such as Dell VxRail

• Demonstrable design experience and/or a lead engineer role in an Enterprise grade VMware environment

• Think out of the box, have a “can do” attitude. Dare to challenge.

• More than 3 years’ experience with NSX, including experience on micro- segmentation is a must .

• High level of experience with network virtualization and firewall technology

• Good understanding of automation practices and tools

• Generic understanding of ITIL processes like IT Service Management and IT Service Operations Management

*Inleen/doorleen niet mogelijk.