Lead VMWare Engineer

Title: Lead VMWare Engineer (Hybrid - 4 Days)

Location: Houston, TX 77040

Duration: Permanent/Direct-Hire

Salary: $130,000 - $160,000 (Depending on Experience)

Onsite Expectations: Hybrid - 4 Days Onsite

Insight Global is looking for a Lead VMWare Engineer for a permanent, direct-hire opportunity that sits hybrid in Houston, TX (4 days/week). This Lead VMWare Engineer will be joining a highly technical team responsible for the full lifecycle of compute, storage, backup, and disaster recovery operations. This role will be very hands-on, but will also have leadership responsibilities amongst onshore/offshore resources on the team. This role is ideal for candidates who thrive in an in-house, data center-focused environment and are passionate about operational excellence, technical innovation, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize a 100% virtualized VMware environment (latest version required).
• Lead a team of 4 onshore and 2 offshore engineers in day-to-day operations, solutioning, design, and execution of infrastructure projects.
• Oversee all aspects of compute, storage, backup, and disaster recovery, with 80% of workloads on-premises.
• Direct responsibility for provisioning, racking, and swapping hardware in data centers.
• Manage Dell hardware for compute, storage, and backup.
• Ensure operational excellence: 60-65% daily operations (ServiceNow requests, incident/change management), 20-25% operational enhancements, 10% innovation.
• Own the run and operations of the environment, with some involvement in design and engineering.
• No outsourcing—team executes all work internally.
• Support quarterly data center visits (Houston, Alpharetta).
• Comfortable with on-call escalation and incident response.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $130,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

Salary : $130,000 - $160,000