Senior System Engineer – Virtualization

About the role

Social Discovery Group is seeking a Senior System Engineer focused on virtualization to design, implement and continuously improve its enterprise‑level data‑center platforms. You will work remotely with a global team of digital nomads, ensuring the reliability and performance of both hyper‑converged and traditional SAN‑based infrastructures.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and administer VMware and Microsoft Hyper‑V environments across HCI and SAN architectures.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise performance, scalability and security of virtualised workloads.
• Plan and execute upgrades, migrations, patching and lifecycle management, integrating with cloud and hybrid services.
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, Network, L2 Support and Remote Hands teams to resolve production incidents and conduct root‑cause analysis.
• Manage enterprise storage, backup and disaster‑recovery solutions, applying best practices for VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, Hyper‑V and SCVMM.
• Drive automation initiatives by evaluating current environments, creating scripts and maintaining technical documentation.

Required profile

• Strong expertise in VMware virtualization technologies (ESXi, vCenter, vSphere) at enterprise scale.
• Hands‑on experience with VMware vSAN, including deployment, policy management and HCI operations.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Hyper‑V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
• Solid understanding of virtual networking, SAN storage protocols and disaster‑recovery concepts.

Required skills

• VMware ESXi
• VMware vCenter
• VMware vSphere
• VMware vSAN
• Microsoft Hyper‑V
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
• Virtual networking (vSwitches, Distributed Switches, VLANs, NIC teaming)
• Storage Area Network (SAN)
• iSCSI
• Fibre Channel
• FCoE
• Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
• Hyper‑Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

What we offer

• Two‑time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan, 2024–2025)
• Top‑5 Company for Work‑From‑Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025)
• Fully remote, globally distributed team of digital nomads