Perficient is a global digital consulting leader seeking a Senior VMware Engineer to lead high-performance optimization and automation initiatives across virtualized environments. The role involves designing and optimizing VMware vSphere environments, conducting performance analysis, and developing automation scripts to enhance operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Design, configure, and optimize VMware vSphere environments for high-performance application workloads handling large-scale transaction processing
- Utilize vRealize Operations (vROps) for proactive performance monitoring, capacity planning, and fine-tuning resource utilization across enterprise clusters
- Conduct performance benchmarking, root cause analysis, and workload characterization to ensure sub-millisecond response times for transaction-heavy applications
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and frameworks in Python to streamline provisioning, monitoring, and performance tuning processes
- Collaborate with application architects, SREs, and DevOps teams to define performance KPIs and implement scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions
- Implement, analyze, and optimize VMware DRS, HA policies, storage I/O control, and network I/O optimization for mission-critical workloads
- Integrate per-VM and per-application performance metrics into observability tools and dashboards to deliver end-to-end visibility
- Drive adoption of performance automation practices, including anomaly detection, auto-remediation, and predictive scaling models
- Prepare detailed performance reports and improvement recommendations for executive and technical stakeholders
- Ensure compliance with organizational security and performance SLAs
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- 7+ years of experience in VMware vSphere administration, including ESXi, vCenter, and distributed resource management
- Proven experience in vRealize Operations (vROps) for end-to-end performance analysis and capacity planning
- Demonstrated success in transaction-heavy environments with measurable performance gains
- Strong proficiency in Python scripting for automation, data collection, performance testing, and infrastructure orchestration
- Experience with performance profiling tools, log analytics (e.g., Splunk, ELK), and infrastructure monitoring solutions
- Familiarity with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or VMware vRealize Automation (vRA)
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills
- Good communication skills for collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
- Understanding of ITIL processes, performance SLAs, and DevOps pipelines
- VMware certifications (VCP, VCIX, or VCAP) are a plus