Senior System Engineer – Virtualization

About the role

Social Discovery Group is seeking a Senior System Engineer focused on virtualization to join its globally distributed team. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving enterprise‑grade virtualization platforms that power our social entertainment products.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage VMware and Microsoft Hyper‑V environments across both hyper‑converged and traditional SAN architectures.
• Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, security, and reliability of virtualized workloads through proactive monitoring and capacity planning.
• Plan and execute upgrades, migrations, patching, and lifecycle management, integrating virtualization with cloud and hybrid services.
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, Network, L2 Support, and Remote Hands teams to resolve complex 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 technologies (ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, vSAN) at enterprise scale.
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Hyper‑V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
• Deep knowledge of virtual networking, SAN storage, and related protocols (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, FCoE).
• Proven ability to troubleshoot, optimize performance, and implement automation in data‑center environments.

Required skills

• VMware ESXi
• VMware vCenter
• VMware vSphere
• VMware vSAN
• Microsoft Hyper‑V
• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
• Virtual networking (vSwitches, Distributed Switches, VLANs, NIC teaming)
• Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• iSCSI
• Fibre Channel
• FCoE
• Automation scripting

What we offer

• Fully remote work with a global digital‑nomad team.
• Opportunity to shape infrastructure for socially impactful products.
• Recognition as a two‑time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan).