Vmware Consultant

5-7 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale VMware environments (vSphere 8, NSX-T, vSAN). Demonstrated experience migrating legacy VMware sites to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 or newer cloud-native stacks. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Participate in DR planning, testing, and execution for the virtualization environment; maintain RPO ≤ 5 seconds and RTO ≤ 15 minutes for critical workloads. Operational Support Provide Tier-2/3 support for production workloads, including 24 × 7 on-call rotation. Conduct thorough morning and end-of-day health-checks using scripted tools and AI-generated health scores. Perform OS and firmware upgrades, mandatory security patches, and storage-system updates through automated pipelines. Performance Monitoring & Capacity Management Configure, fine-tune, and maintain monitoring thresholds, alarms, and dashboards in Aria Operations, VRLI, and VRNI. Use AI-driven anomaly detection to anticipate capacity bottlenecks and latency spikes before they affect production. Process Improvement & Standardisation Facilitate environment-wide process-improvement initiatives (change, release, and incident management) to increase efficiency and consistency. Ensure all deployments adhere to group standards, best practices, and security hardening guides (CIS, VMware Hardened Base Image).