VMware Infrastructure Engineer

HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform Engineering (CCP) is seeking two experienced contract engineers to support the SilverCreek on-prem platform initiative. These individuals will augment the existing engineering team responsible for delivering, validating, maintaining, and automating the deployment of CCP infrastructure and platform services within highly secure, disconnected customer environments.

The ideal candidates will possess deep hands-on experience with VMware-based infrastructure, Linux systems administration, cloud management platforms, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes ecosystems, and deployment of software into air-gapped environments.

This role is highly technical and requires engineers who are comfortable operating across infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, deployment validation, security hardening, and operational troubleshooting.

Person selected needs to be within 1 Time-Zone of MST (Ideally, 'in' MST).

Key Responsibilities

On-Prem Platform Delivery

• Deploy, configure, and maintain VMware vSphere/ESXi environments supporting HPE GreenLake workloads.
• Support CCP platform packaging, delivery, installation, and lifecycle management for SilverCreek deployments.
• Assist with infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and release validation activities.
• Troubleshoot deployment, integration, and operational issues across platform infrastructure and services.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure automation.
• Automate provisioning workflows through Morpheus or equivalent cloud management platforms.
• Support Git-based CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform delivery.
• Create automated deployment validation frameworks, health checks, smoke tests, and infrastructure testing solutions.

Air-Gapped & Regulated Environment Support

• Design and support software delivery into disconnected or highly restricted environments.
• Maintain private package repositories, image registries, and artifact distribution processes.
• Manage certificate lifecycles, PKI integrations, and offline dependency management.
• Support compliance and security requirements including STIG, FIPS, and similar regulated deployment standards.

Platform Operations

• Support Linux infrastructure and Kubernetes platform services.
• Troubleshoot networking, storage, and virtualization-related issues.
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams to optimize deployment reliability and operational efficiency.
• Participate in issue triage, root cause analysis, and operational readiness reviews.

Required Technical Skills

VMware Infrastructure (Highest Priority)

• VMware vSphere / ESXi administration
• VMware vCenter management
• Cluster configuration and operations
• Datastore management
• High Availability (HA)
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Virtual machine lifecycle management

Platform Automation

• Terraform (required)
• Infrastructure as Code methodologies
• Git-based workflows
• CI/CD automation
• API-driven infrastructure provisioning

Linux Administration

• Advanced Linux systems administration
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Operating system lifecycle management
• Shell scripting and automation

Kubernetes Ecosystem

• Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
• Helm package management
• Container lifecycle management
• Cluster operations and support

Cloud Management Platforms

Experience with one or more of:

• HPE Morpheus (preferred)
• VMware Aria / vRealize
• CloudBolt
• Comparable private cloud platforms

Preferred Skills

Air-Gapped Deployments

• Offline package management
• Artifact bundling and promotion
• Disconnected software delivery
• Container image curation and management
• Private registries and repositories

Image & VM Engineering

• Golden image creation
• VM template management
• OVF / OVA workflows
• Cloud-init
• Sysprep
• Packer

Networking & Storage

• VLAN configuration and troubleshooting
• VMware vSwitches
• DNS, DHCP, and NTP services
• NFS
• iSCSI
• vSAN

Security & Compliance

• STIG implementation
• FIPS-compliant environments
• Security hardening
• Certificate management
• Secure infrastructure deployment practices

Software Packaging

• Container image management
• Helm chart packaging and vendoring
• RPM repository administration
• DEB repository administration

Validation & Testing

Experience with one or more:

• Goss
• pytest
• Ansible validation frameworks
• Infrastructure testing automation

Desired Experience

• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering or platform engineering experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise private cloud or on-premises platforms.
• Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes-based platform services.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Success Criteria

The successful contractors will help CCP:

• Accelerate SilverCreek deployment and release activities.
• Improve deployment automation and validation.
• Reduce engineering toil associated with on-prem package delivery.
• Improve infrastructure reliability and operational readiness.
• Support secure, compliant deployments into disconnected customer environments.
• Increase team capacity for SilverCreek-related engineering initiatives.

Vendor Screening Keywords

Must-Have Keywords

• VMware ESXi
• vCenter
• Terraform
• Linux
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• GitOps
• Infrastructure Automation

Strongly Preferred

• Morpheus
• Air-Gapped Deployments
• STIG
• FIPS
• Packer
• OVF/OVA
• Private Registry
• vSAN
• NFS
• iSCSI

Bonus

• HPE GreenLake
• Cloud Platform Engineering
• Regulated Government Environments
• DoD IL4/IL5
• OpenTofu
• GitHub Actions