Senior Infrastructure Lead

99BrightMinds is seeking a highly experienced Senior Infrastructure Lead (VMware) to lead and support enterprise virtualization and data center operations for a major airline organization . This role requires deep hands-on expertise in VMware technologies, infrastructure architecture, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security within mission-critical environments.

Requirements

• Administer, maintain, and optimize VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter environments.
• Manage and support VMware HA, DRS, and vMotion to ensure high availability, workload balancing, and seamless migrations across the virtual infrastructure.
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot VMware vSAN storage solutions to support enterprise workloads and business-critical systems.
• Administer and maintain VMware NSX environments, including network virtualization, micro-segmentation, and security policies.
• Monitor virtualization platform performance, capacity, and health, ensuring maximum uptime and operational efficiency.
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades, patches, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
• Design and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for VMware workloads.
• Manage integration between VMware platforms, enterprise storage systems, and SAN infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization, compute, storage, and networking issues within the data center environment.
• Implement infrastructure hardening and security best practices across virtualization platforms.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, and application teams to support mission-critical services.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of major infrastructure incidents.