Vmware Administrator
Saudi Networkers Services · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Tailor my CV for this job — free- Create and maintain recovery plans, protection groups, and network/IP mappings for DR
- Plan and execute DR tests, failover, and failback; document outcomes and remediate gaps
- Monitor replication health, RPO compliance, and resource utilization; resolve replication failures
- Provision, clone, migrate (vMotion/Storage vMotion), and decommission virtual machines
- Manage HA, DRS, and resource pools to maintain availability and performance
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and trend reporting
- Apply patches, firmware, and upgrades to ESXi hosts and vCenter following change management
- Coordinate with storage, network, backup, security, and application teams
- Handle incidents and service requests within SLA and perform root cause analysis
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and VM standards and templates
- Experience in Administration and maintaining VMware vSphere environments (ESXi, vCenter, clusters, datastores, distributed switches)
- Configuration and management of VM replication using vSphere Replication, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), or equivalent tools such as Zerto and Veeam
- Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter) and vSAN or external SAN/NAS datastores
- Solid understanding of replication technologies: vSphere Replication, SRM, Zerto, Veeam Replication, array-based replication (e.g., SRDF, SnapMirror)
- Knowledge of RPO/RTO, consistency groups, point-in-time recovery, and replication seeding and re-protect workflows
- Networking for virtual environments: vSwitches/vDS, VLANs, NSX basics, stretched networks, and IP re-mapping during failover
- Storage concepts: LUNs, datastores, multipathing, snapshots, thin provisioning
- Windows and Linux server administration
- Scripting and automation: PowerCLI, PowerShell, or Python; Ansible or Terraform is a plus
- Monitoring tools such as vRealize/Aria Operations, Log Insight, or similar
- Backup integration with tools such as Veeam, Commvault, or Rubrik
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Proven experience configuring and supporting replication and DR in production
- Preferred certifications: VMware VCP-DCV (advanced: VCAP), Zerto ZCP, Veeam VMCE, ITIL Foundation
- Kindly review the requirements and share suitable profiles at the earliest.