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Senior VMware VCSP Engineer

AHEAD· Managed Services / MS Infrastructure
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Hybrid (Hyderabad, India)Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior, customer-facing VMware VCSP Engineer in the AHEAD Managed Services team supporting enterprise customers through the VMware Cloud Service Provider program. Responsible for technical ownership of VMware infrastructure issues, VCSP licensing and usage operations, service-request fulfillment, vendor escalation, and continuous improvement of support processes. Hybrid role based in Hyderabad.

Responsibilities

  • Own and resolve complex customer incidents, service requests, and catalog tasks through ServiceNow, from intake through technical resolution and closure.
  • Provide senior-level troubleshooting across VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, vSAN, VMware Usage Meter, and related platform components.
  • Investigate infrastructure failures involving installation and deployment, upgrades, certificates, DNS, NTP, networking, storage, authentication, host connectivity, and management-plane services.
  • Support VMware VCSP licensing operations, including entitlement validation, license-key and subscription workflows, capacity changes, product-version alignment, and customer guidance during upgrades.
  • Operate and troubleshoot VMware Usage Meter environments; generate, validate, and distribute monthly usage reports and investigate reporting or connectivity issues.
  • Lead customer communications during escalations, including evidence gathering, validation plans, remote troubleshooting sessions, status updates, and resolution confirmation.
  • Determine when Broadcom/VMware vendor support is required, open and manage vendor cases under the applicable entitlement, and maintain accurate case references and technical history in ServiceNow.
  • Translate technical findings into clear remediation steps, root-cause analysis, knowledge articles, standard operating procedures, and reusable troubleshooting runbooks.
  • Participate in rotational 24x7 support, major-incident response, on-call activities, and shift handovers with disciplined documentation.
  • Mentor engineers, review technical responses, improve queue quality, and help standardize VMware VCSP support across the team.
  • Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting, validation, case-management, and operational tasks using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience supporting enterprise VMware environments in a managed-services, consulting, or service-provider organization.
  • Strong hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation and the core vSphere stack, including ESXi, vCenter Server, vSAN, lifecycle management, and upgrade planning.
  • Demonstrated experience owning customer-impacting incidents and technical escalations through resolution.
  • Practical experience with VMware VCSP licensing, subscription or entitlement operations, Usage Meter, usage reporting, and capacity or compliance-related workflows.
  • Strong ServiceNow experience with incidents, requests, catalog tasks, work notes, customer updates, escalation tracking, and closure criteria.
  • Ability to troubleshoot methodically using logs, command-line tools, APIs, configuration reviews, and documented validation plans.
  • Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure dependencies such as DNS, NTP, certificates, Active Directory/LDAP, firewalls, routing, storage, and backup.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues to both infrastructure teams and business stakeholders.
  • Willingness to work in a rotational 24x7 support model and participate in on-call or major-incident coverage.

Skills

Required:VMware Cloud FoundationVCSP licensing operationsUsage MeterServiceNowIncident management
Nice to have:Automation (PowerCLI/PowerShell/Python/REST APIs)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents
  • Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy
  • Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
  • Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling
  • Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being
  • Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations
  • Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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