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Spinnaker Support

VMware Senior Technical Support Engineer (NSX) at Spinnaker Support (United States)

Spinnaker Support· United States· $125k–$135k·

Role details

Salary
$125k–$135k
Work type
Remote

Job description

Spinnaker Support provides global enterprise software support, managed services, and project-based consulting to many of the world’s most recognized and respected brands. Founded in 2008, our customer focus, business integrity, exacting standards, and depth of expertise have earned us the trust and loyalty of over 1,300 organizations located in 104 countries. Our dedicated international team works closely with every customer to ensure they receive exceptional, customized services that clear the way for their operational success. Today, Spinnaker Support is proud to be the industry’s highest-rated provider for third-party software support services for VMware, Oracle, SAP, JD Edwards and Microsoft.

We have an immediate need for an experienced VMware L3 Support Engineer:

  • Occasional after hours, weekends and holidays support for urgent customer issues.
  • Must have excellent customer focus and communication, friendly interaction and passion to help customers with their software issues.
  • Ability to troubleshoot customer issues in an environment where online and remotely connected to the customer’s systems.
  • Work as part of a global team ensuring effective collaboration to help resolve customer issues in a 24x7 follow the sun support model.
  • Drive customer satisfaction by tracking issues from start to closure, minimizing aging cases.
  • Provide when requested root cause analysis for technical issues.
  • Assist with creating and maintaining relevant knowledge articles.
  • Work with other internal stakeholders as needed to enhance the overall customer experience.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Promote best practise and new methodologies

Role skill requirements:

  • Minimum 5 years’ experience across VMware core technologies at a senior support level.
  • Experience in handling critical customer situations.
  • Knowledge of NSX-T Architecture: Understanding Managers, Controllers, Transport Nodes, Edge Nodes, TEPs.
  • Understanding of Logical Switching & Routing: Segment creation and management, Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway design
  • Understanding of Distributed Firewall (DFW) and Gateway Firewall (GFW): Micro-segmentation, Rule creation and optimization and Grouping objects and policies
  • Understanding of Edge Services: Load balancer configuration, NAT and VPN.
  • Knowledge of VMware vSphere is mandatory. Hand-on experience on vCenter, ESXi, VM networking and vDS (vSphere Distributed Switch).
  • Knowledge of Rest API, Curl and Postman is mandatory. Understanding of the HTTP response code, able to craft Rest API call (GET, POST, PUT and DELETE).
  • Knowledge of Certificates is needed. Understand the concept of Self-signed, CA certificates.
  • Proficiency on Linux/UNIX is mandatory. Able to navigate the directories and filing system, to use shell commands in a troubleshooting environment.
  • Proficiency in Networking is mandatory. In-depth understanding of L3 networking protocols including switching technologies, routing fundamentals, IP subnetting and Address Management, fire walling, load balancers, Security trust zones, Management Networks, VPN and network design
  • Proficiency in Packet Capture/Wireshark is mandatory. Able to navigate through the complexity of the network virtualization.
  • Familiarity with systems management concepts, processes and standards (e. g. SNMP); capacity/performance management and tuning; and storage and network management.
  • Certifications required: Linux: LPIC-1, LPIC-2. Networking: CCNA, CCNP is a plus, VMware: VCP, VCP-NV, VCAP-NV is a plus

We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. As such, compensation will ultimately be in line with the labor market data, and the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the candidate, and alignment with labor market data and geographic location.

US - Pay Transparency $125,000—$135,000 USD

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Why work at Spinnaker Support

  • Culture: Employee reviews on the careers page highlight an "outstanding experience," "great people, fantastic culture, strong and growing business," and "cultured, experienced, and fun" atmosphere. Multiple long-tenured employees (e.g., 6+ years) express high satisfaction.
  • Remote/Hybrid Policy: The company supports a wide range of remote roles. The careers page lists numerous "Remote - US," "Remote - UK," "Remote - India," and "Remote - Ireland or UK" positions, indicating a strong remote-first culture for many roles. There are also in-office roles for the Denver HQ and sales offices in London, Singapore, and Australia.
  • Growth & Stability: A 22+ year old company that is still growing (8.4% headcount increase), suggesting a stable yet dynamic work environment.
  • Global Exposure: Opportunities to work in or collaborate with teams across the US, UK, APAC, and EMEA.
  • Specialized Skills: The company values deep technical expertise in Oracle, SAP, and VMware ecosystems, making it an ideal place for specialists in these areas.

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