Job Title:  Senior Consultant | Data Center Virtualization | Bengaluru | Engineering

Senior Consultant | EA&D-Engineering | Data Center Virtualization

• Location:  Bengaluru 
• Entity:  Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP

The team

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Your work profile

We’re seeking a Virtualization SME to operate, optimize, and secure our Software‑Defined Data Center (SDDC) platforms. You’ll manage VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, collaborate on NSX‑T and vSAN/SAN/NAS, drive lifecycle management, backup/DR readiness, and automation—ensuring availability, performance, and compliance for mission‑critical workloads.

Key Responsibilities

SDDC Platform Operations

• Operate and maintain vSphere clusters (HA/DRS), ESXi hosts, and vCenter: patching, upgrades, health checks, HCL alignment.
• Perform VM lifecycle tasks: templates, cloning, snapshots (best practices), vMotion/Storage vMotion, resource rightsizing.
• Support VCF/SDDC Manager domain operations (if applicable).

Networking (NSX‑T)

• Work with network teams on NSX‑T constructs: segments, DFW security groups/policies, NAT, DHCP, LB basics; integrate with physical networks (VLANs, MTU).
• Troubleshoot connectivity, micro‑segmentation, and east‑west/north‑south traffic issues.

Storage

• Operate vSAN (policies/SPBM, health, capacity, resync behavior) and integrate with SAN/NAS (FC/iSCSI/NFS).
• Monitor and tune storage performance (IOPS/throughput/latency) and plan capacity expansions.

Backup, DR & Resilience

• Ensure VM and app‑aware backups using Veeam/Commvault/Rubrik/Cohesity; maintain immutability and offsite copies as applicable.
• Participate in DR planning (SRM/HCX), maintain runbooks, and support RPO/RTO‑aligned DR drills and restore testing.

Security & Compliance

• Apply platform hardening (ESXi/vCenter/NSX‑T/vSAN), RBAC/least privilege, certificate/TLS management, and encryption controls.
• Remediate vulnerabilities and maintain audit/compliance evidence (ITIL/ISO/SOC as applicable).

Automation & Observability

• Automate routine operations with PowerCLI/PowerShell, Ansible, and Terraform/Aria (vRA/vRO); maintain reusable modules/playbooks.
• Implement and tune monitoring/alerting using Aria Operations (vROps), vRLI, Splunk/ELK, or Prometheus/Grafana; publish health/capacity dashboards.
• Keep CMDB/asset inventories, diagrams, SOPs, and runbooks current.

Operations Excellence

• Provide L2/L3 support, lead RCAs for virtualization incidents, and execute changes with solid risk/rollback plans.
• Collaborate closely with compute, network, storage, backup, security, DB, and app teams; participate in on‑call as needed.

Key skills required: 

• 5–8 years in data center/cloud operations with strong hands‑on VMware SDDC experience.
• Compute: vSphere/ESXi/vCenter (clusters, HA/DRS, lifecycle, templates, snapshots, vMotion).
• Network: Working knowledge of NSX‑T (segments, groups, DFW, LB basics) and physical network integration (VLANs, LACP, MTU).
• Storage: vSAN operations and SAN/NAS fundamentals (FC/iSCSI/NFS), SPBM and capacity/performance management.
• Backup/DR: Experience with Veeam/Commvault/Rubrik/Cohesity and DR concepts (SRM/HCX desirable).
• Automation: PowerCLI/PowerShell essential; Ansible and Terraform/Aria exposure preferred; Git workflows.
• Observability: vROps/Aria, vRLI, Splunk/ELK or Prometheus/Grafana; capacity and performance troubleshooting.
• Solid documentation, communication, and ITIL Incident/Change/Problem experience.
• Scripting for operations (Shell/Python preferred) and SQL/PLSQL proficiency.