vSphere Administrator

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About the project

Your responsibilities

• Ensure operational stability and availability of vSphere supported products and services.
• Administer and maintain vSphere 8 and ESXi 8 infrastructure in production environments.
• Implement and monitor controls to ensure compliance with Service Management Standards and internal policies.
• Manage incidents, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate root cause investigations across VMware systems.
• Oversee vCenter Server operations, including configuration, permissions, alarms, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain and optimise clusters, resource pools, templates, snapshots, and hardware configurations.
• Deliver infrastructure engineering changes focused on automation, performance, and resilience.
• Manage vSphere networking: distributed and standard switches, VLANs, NIC teaming, and network troubleshooting.
• Collaborate on storage administration, including VMFS, NFS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI setups.
• Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to patch, remediate, and ensure cluster compliance.
• Perform capacity and performance analysis, monitoring, and predictive scaling to sustain stability.
• Support backup, recovery, and DR procedures for virtualised infrastructure.
• Automate repetitive tasks using PowerCLI, PowerShell, and Ansible where possible.
• Participate in on call rotation and provide production support when required.
• Note: Detailed project information will be shared during the recruitment process.

Our requirements

• Proven experience administrating VMware vSphere 8 and ESXi 8 in enterprise scale environments.
• Deep knowledge of virtualisation principles — clusters, HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion.
• Hands on vCenter Server management and configuration experience.
• Strong understanding of VMware networking and storage technologies (VMFS, NFS, iSCSI, multipathing).
• Skilled in host deployment, configuration, patching, and compliance management.
• Professional experience with Unix/Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server administration.
• Solid scripting capability with Bash, PowerCLI, and PowerShell.
• Familiar with backup and disaster recovery practices for virtual infrastructures.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance analysis, and capacity planning skills.
• Excellent communication skills in English (spoken and written).

Optional

• Knowledge of Ansible automation or similar configuration management tools.
• Experience integrating VMware with enterprise monitoring, identity, and storage platforms.
• Familiarity with collaboration and ITSM tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow).
• Understanding of incident, problem, and change management processes (ITIL environment).
• German language (spoken) is a plus.
• Analytical mindset, teamwork spirit, and ownership attitude.

What we offer

• Flexible cooperation model – choose the form that suits you best
• (B2B, employment contract, etc.)
• Hybrid work setup – 6 days a month in the office in Krakow - remote days available depending on the client’s arrangements
• Collaborative team culture – work alongside experienced professionals eager to share knowledge
• Continuous development – access to training platforms and growth opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits – including Interpolska Health Care, Multisport card, Warta Insurance, and more
• High quality equipment – laptop and essential software provided

Benefits