VMware Platform Engineering Senior Engineer

Job#: 3051493

Job Description:

Position Description

The Platform Engineering Senior Engineer will be responsible for engineering, deployment, operational administration, and protection of global enterprise virtualization hosting solutions. This role supports infrastructure systems, line-of-business applications, and third-party application requirements while ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence.

Virtualization Hosting Service Enablement

• Engineer, deploy, administer, and protect global enterprise virtualization hosting solutions.
• Architect, design, install, administer, and support virtualization platforms including:
  • VMware
  • OpenShift Virtualization (OSV)
• Manage the complete global technology lifecycle, including:
  • Infrastructure security vulnerability patching
  • Planning
  • Design
  • Implementation
  • Maintenance
  • Upgrades
  • Hardware and software decommissioning
• Engineer, test, and document:
  • Procedures
  • Monitoring solutions
  • Logging solutions
  • Disaster recovery processes
  • Security policies and guidelines
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of hardware and software products.
• Research industry trends and best practices.
• Support large-scale global deployments of virtualization technologies.
• Support HPE Synergy/ProLiant iLO and firmware field testing.

Capacity Management

• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting across:
  • Compute resources
  • Virtual Machines (VMs)
  • Memory
  • Storage
  • Network resources
• Ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion.
• Analyze resource utilization trends and provide recommendations for:
  • Infrastructure scaling
  • Consolidation
  • Optimization
• Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity requirements.
• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning.

Automation & Operational Efficiency

• Develop automation solutions, including scripts and playbooks, for repetitive VMware and OSV tasks such as:
  • Configuration changes
  • VM management (including snapshot removal)
  • Auditing
  • Remediation
  • Ticketing system integrations
• Leverage automation to efficiently deliver operational updates and changes at scale.
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve:
  • Platform stability
  • Performance
  • Operational efficiency
• Deploy and audit Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC).
• Manage namespaces and resource quotas, including:
  • CPU
  • Disk
  • Storage

Observability, Monitoring, Logging & Troubleshooting

• Implement and maintain comprehensive end-to-end observability solutions across VMware and OSV environments.
• Integrate with tools including:
  • Dynatrace
  • RHACM
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
• Explore and implement Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) capabilities to enhance real-time monitoring and response.
• Develop capabilities to:
  • Detect and report abnormalities
  • Identify observability blind spots
• Perform deep-dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to rapidly identify and resolve issues throughout the global compute environment.
• Identify unhealthy systems and hidden issues across global infrastructure to accelerate resolution times.
• Proactively monitor:
  • VM health
  • Resource consumption
  • Performance metrics
• Monitor for unusual activity that could indicate:
  • Security compromises
  • Misconfigurations

Solution Design & Technical Consulting

• Provide technical consulting and platform expertise to application teams requiring VMware and OSV solutions.
• Design, implement, and validate:
  • Custom OSV clusters
  • Dedicated OSV clusters
  • Virtual machine solutions
• Support critical applications with complex or specialized requirements, including specialized appliances.

Knowledge Management

• Create, maintain, and update:
  • Internal technical documentation
  • Customer-facing documentation
• Enable self-service capabilities and clearly communicate platform capabilities.

Support Responsibilities

• Participate in Level 1 through Level 3 support for operational and environmental issues.
• Monthly after-hours and weekend support will be required.

Required Skills

• Scripting
• Automation
• Kubernetes
• Root Cause Analysis
• Troubleshooting / Problem Solving
• Cloud Architecture
• IT Solutions
• GitHub
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Change Management
• Technical Analysis
• Developer Experience
• Tekton
• Utilization Management
• VMware
• VMware ESX Servers
• Platform Support
• Infrastructure Architectures

Preferred Skills

• Ansible
• Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
• Dynatrace
• PowerShell
• Access Controls
• Python
• Information Security
• Automation
• Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems

Required Experience

Senior Engineer Level

• Practical experience in two programming languages, or advanced practical experience in one programming language.
• 10+ years of IT experience.
• 8+ years of development experience.
• Strong understanding of VMware and Kubernetes concepts.
• Experience with Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency in scripting languages used for automation.
• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms.
• Understanding of virtualization technologies and concepts, including:
  • KVM
  • VMware
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot issues across multiple layers of the technology stack.
• Knowledge of:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • DevOps methodologies
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Self-starter mindset with a willingness to proactively identify opportunities and evolve services.
• Ability to "go where the work is" and continuously improve platform capabilities.

Education Requirements

Required

• Associate Degree
• College Senior standing

Preferred

• Certification Program
• Bachelor's Degree

Summary

This is a senior-level platform engineering role focused on VMware, OpenShift Virtualization (OSV), Kubernetes, automation, observability, and enterprise infrastructure operations. The position supports global virtualization platforms, drives automation and capacity management initiatives, participates in L1-L3 support, and requires strong expertise in platform engineering, troubleshooting, Linux, scripting, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure within a highly scalable enterprise environment.

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