Dell Technologies customers rely on our products and services to drive progress. We take the services we deliver extremely seriously—ensuring our technology solutions help customers achieve their business priorities, overcome challenges, and scale for the future.
Infrastructure Services plays a critical role in designing, deploying, and operating secure, resilient, and high‑performance platforms. As trusted technical advisors, we partner closely with customers and internal teams to deliver enterprise‑grade, software‑defined infrastructure and drive continuous improvement across environments.
Join us as a Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Services (I8) in our Infrastructure Services team in Bangalore to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.
As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will provide world‑class technical expertise by designing, deploying, and operating complex, software‑defined infrastructure platforms. You will act as a technical leader, contributing to architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross‑functional stakeholders across networking, security, storage, and application teams.
You will play a key role in ensuring platform stability, scalability, and performance while driving technical excellence and operational best practices.
You will:- Design, deploy, and operate Dell PowerFlex infrastructure, integrating compute, storage, and software‑defined networking for enterprise environments.
- Architect and support VMware NSX‑T (mandatory) for network virtualization, micro‑segmentation, and security across VMware and PowerFlex platforms.
- Administer and optimize the VMware stack (vSphere, vCenter, and vSAN where applicable) to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability.
- Build and manage infrastructure on Dell PowerEdge servers, including provisioning, lifecycle management, and advanced L3/L4 incident troubleshooting.
- Provide technical leadership by driving architecture reviews, documentation (HLD/LLD, SOPs), cross‑team collaboration, and mentoring engineers.
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:
Essential Requirements- Strong hands‑on experience with Dell PowerFlex including deployment, scaling, lifecycle management, SDS/SDC architecture, fault domains, performance tuning, and integration with VMware workloads.
- Mandatory expertise in VMware NSX‑T, covering architecture, logical switching and routing, micro‑segmentation, distributed firewall policies, load balancing, and advanced NSX networking and security troubleshooting.
- Deep expertise in the VMware stack, including ESXi and vCenter administration, VM lifecycle management, clustering, HA/DRS, and performance monitoring and optimization.
- Hands‑on experience with Dell PowerEdge servers, including server provisioning, BIOS/firmware, RAID and NIC configuration, and hardware troubleshooting.
- Strong foundation in physical and virtual data‑center networking (mandatory), including VLANs, VXLAN, TCP/IP, MTU/jumbo frames, LACP, high‑availability designs, and collaboration with network teams on ToR switches, cabling, optics, and connectivity troubleshooting.
- 8–12 years of enterprise infrastructure experience, supporting large‑scale data centers with demonstrated exposure to solution design, architecture, or technical lead roles.
- Exposure to modern HCI and cloud‑native platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift (on‑prem or hybrid) and Nutanix HCI (AOS, Prism, AHV – hands‑on or conceptual).
We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That’s why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and the most advanced technology in the industry, we’re looking for you.
Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live, and play. Join us to build a future that works for everyone—because Progress Takes All of Us.
Application closing date: 30-April-26
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