Platform Engineer

Skills Required:

• 5+ years experience with VMWare hypervisor platform and core technologies including vSCenter, vSAN, and NSX-T
• 5+ years experience with multiple hardware vendor platforms to include HPE and Dell.
• 5+ years experience with deploying and managing various Operating Systems in a Microsoft Active Directory managed environment including Windows Servers, RedHat, and vendor supplied appliances.
• 3+ years experience with high availability technologies such SAN, RDMs/Shared VMDK, Clustered Storage, Server/SQL Clusters, and Network Load Balancers.
• 3+ years experience with other hypervisor platforms including Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, etc.
• 3+ years experience with various infrastructure platform management tools to include HPE OneView, DELL OpenManage, RedHat Satellite, SCCM, SCVMM, etc.
• 3+ year of experience with various core VMware technologies including vSphere ESXi, and vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation, and vRealize Suite.
• 3+ years of experience with PowerShell and PowerCLI,scripting.
• 3+ years of experience in supporting various Operating Systems in a Microsoft Active Directory managed environment.
• 3+ years of experience with multiple hardware platforms.
• 2+ years experience working with VMWare Cloud Foundation in a large enterprise
• 2+ years experience with various VMware products including vROPS, vRLI, SDDC, LCM, vIDM, and vRNI
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code capabilities such as Ansible Automated Platform and Terraform.
• Experience with PowerShell and PowerCLI scripting.
• Experience with network concepts such as gateways, subnets, firewalls, AD/Infoblox DNS, NSX/DFW tags, and VM level micro-segmentation.
• High degree of self-motivation, productivity, commitment, and integrity.
• Experience with responsible use of Corporate AI tools for gaining velocity in productivity and development code, such as Agentic AI, GitHub Co-Pilot, etc.
• Good interpersonal skills (the ability to work well with others of various ranges of technical abilities and to be a team member).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field or equivalent experience is preferred.

Special Qualifications

• Experience with the full VMware Cloud Foundation solution.
• Experience with Multi-Site Private/Public Cloud design with working knowledge of Dynamic Capacity, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Site Recovery, and NSX-T federation.
• Experience using a single ADO board to support hybrid delivery, applying Kanban for operations and Agile practices for automation and development, and extending this experience across others through example and shared practices.
• Experience with platform infrastructure and Guest VM automation.

Work Description and Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Product Engineering involves the operational execution, support, capacity optimization, automation development, and documentation management of the on-premise private cloud environment to sustain platform health, enable VM cloud modernization, accelerate strategic initiatives, and maximize infrastructure value.Execute VM right-sizing reductions in coordination with application teams, including OS-level resource validation, approval workflows, and progress reporting through dashboards.
• Execute and coordinate VM cloud modernization conversions including replication transitions with federation enabled, requiring capacity assessments, JSON conversions/validations, runbook updates, and pipeline execution for VMs in scope.
• Track, maintain, and coordinate ongoing platform efforts including host upgrades, security patches, appliance deployments/upgrades, and upgrade readiness validation across all environments.
• Create, maintain, track, and clean up purpose-built VMs and environments in Sandbox used for POC efforts, upgrade path testing, and security hardening validation.
• Assist peer engineers with backlog of POC projects, vendor provided fixes/updates, and/or security findings to be validated in Sandbox environments.
• Maintain and enhance capacity analytics dashboards, ADO board hygiene, and baseline metrics tracking to support project executions and meet delivery timelines.
• Develop and extend automation for compliance remediation, host build processes, and operational workflows through scripting and pipeline development.
• Create, peer review, and maintain documentation including automation runbooks/playbooks, operational procedures, and onboarding materials to reduce tribal knowledge dependencies and align for agentic AI readiness.