vSphere Administrator

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Join Our Client as a vSphere Administrator! 

Are you experienced in VMware virtualisation and infrastructure operations? This is your opportunity to join a global Enterprise Infrastructure Technology team as a vSphere Admin Specialist, responsible for maintaining stability, performance, and security of large‑scale virtualised enterprise environments.

This role involves hands‑on administration, automation, and engineering tasks to ensure the reliability of VMware vSphere and ESXi‑based infrastructure that supports mission‑critical banking applications.

Sounds like your kind of challenge? 

• 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.

#Li-hybrid - 6 days a month in the office in Krakow
Note: Detailed project information will be shared during the recruitment process. 

• 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).

Nice to Have

• 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.

Joining this project you’ll become part of Mindbox – a tech-driven company where consulting, engineering, and talent meet to build meaningful digital solutions. We’ll back you up every step of the way, accelerate your development, and ensure your skills make a difference. 

Submit your application! We look forward to reviewing your profile 😊 

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