Location: Valencia, Spain, or Brindisi, Italy, or fully remote within Southern & Eastern Europe (teleworking up to 5 days per week)

Start date: ASAP

Languages: Professional proficiency in English required; Spanish is a plus

Industry: Virtualization / IT Infrastructure / IT Services

Duration: 6 months, with the possibility of extension based on performance

About the Opportunity

Pragmatike is hiring a Virtualization Administrator to provide dedicated operational support for a customer’s enterprise virtualization infrastructure, as part of a long-term project. You will help ensure the stability, security, availability, and continuous improvement of the platform.

Under the supervision of the IT Infrastructure Team Lead, you will administer, monitor, maintain, optimize, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments. You will work closely with the storage, backup, network, security, operating-system, application, and service-management teams. You will also support alternative platforms such as Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V, and OLVM/KVM as required.

This is a hands-on role for someone who is methodical, service-oriented, and quick to learn. You will resolve incidents and requests, implement approved changes, maintain platform health, security, capacity, and lifecycle compliance, and automate routine tasks. You will work independently on assigned operational tasks while following established procedures and change-management controls. Complex, architectural, or high-risk matters are escalated to senior engineers or the Team Lead.

What You’ll Do

Install, configure, and maintain VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments.

Support Nutanix, Hyper-V, and OLVM/KVM environments as required.

Perform VMware lifecycle patching, host updates, and approved configuration changes.

Implement virtualization solutions that meet the customer’s operational needs.

Apply security best practices and maintain compliance with applicable standards.

Monitor the health and performance of virtual machines and hosts.

Tune environments and proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

Troubleshoot virtualization issues and resolve incidents and problems while minimizing service disruption.

Maintain scripts and tools that streamline administration, provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring.

Keep current with virtualization technologies and assess improvements, including through proof-of-concept deployments.

Work with IT teams, stakeholders, and vendors to plan and deliver virtualization projects under the Team Lead’s guidance.

Provide timely updates on project progress, issues, and resolutions.

Guide junior colleagues in established practices.

Maintain infrastructure and process documentation, and report regularly on platform health, performance, and capacity.

Provide on-call/standby support on a rotation basis.

Provide ad hoc support within or beyond the team, including special projects or temporary service-delivery assignments, as requested.

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of hands-on experience supporting and operating enterprise-grade virtualization infrastructure in production environments.

Proven hands-on experience installing, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

Experience with VMware VCF, including VCF Operations and VCF Automation core components.

Exposure to alternative virtualization platforms such as Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM.

Strong scripting and automation skills using tools such as Python, PowerShell, Terraform, or Ansible.

Hands-on experience applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with Terraform to provision and manage virtual infrastructure, particularly VMware vSphere resources.

Proficiency with command-line tools for managing virtualized systems.

Sound understanding of storage, networking, backup, server hardware, and operating-system dependencies.

Methodical troubleshooting skills and the ability to resolve incidents with minimal service disruption.