Storage and Virtualization Engineer – Hybrid – 12-Month Contract Our client, a large public sector organization, is seeking a Storage and Virtualization Engineer r for a hybrid, 12-month contract role. The consultant will lead and support enterprise-level infrastructure projects with a focus on storage, virtualization (VMware SDDC), and hyper-converged systems.

Job Description

The Storage and Virtualization Engineer is responsible for the design, development, configuration, optimization, and maintenance of server, storage, and virtualization environments. This role also includes project management responsibilities and the development of architectural documentation and automation solutions aligned with enterprise IT strategies.

Responsibilities

Lead, configure, maintain, and optimize storage, hyper-converged, and server hardware and VMware SDDC software

Recommend hardware/server requirements and build application environments

Plan, oversee, and document infrastructure projects to ensure alignment with project goals and timelines

Provide senior-level architectural solutions and automation strategies for virtualization implementations

Ensure application, component, and service conformance with established architecture standards

Perform solution assessments and design complex, multi-phased migration projects

Develop and maintain architectural diagrams covering enterprise, business, data, security, and/or technology domains

Implement, provision, and troubleshoot storage, server, and virtualization infrastructure

Manage performance metrics and capacity projections

Required Qualifications

8+ years of experience in Hyper-Converged compute environments and multi-tiered storage architectures

8+ years of experience with enterprise storage solutions such as Dell EMC VPLEX, VxRail, VxRack, vSAN, ScaleIO, Pure Storage, Rubrik

8+ years of hands-on experience configuring and designing VMware SDDC software stack

8+ years of experience with PowerShell, Azure ARM templates, and Azure CLI

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience in education industry projects

Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills

Proven ability to work across heterogeneous systems and platforms

Exposure to Cisco ACI and other application provisioning and hosting technologies

Work Location & Schedule

Hybrid schedule (specific on-site expectations to be confirmed)

12-month contract

W2 only; no visa sponsorship available

Flexible work from home options available.