Private Cloud Engineer III

TierPoint LLC; Town and Country (MO); Remote; USD 96,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

TierPoint LLC is seeking a senior-level cloud administrator to manage daily operations of storage, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure. The role emphasizes deep technical leadership, ownership of complex systems, and mentoring junior staff.

Regular collaboration with internal teams and clients focuses on solution design and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have extensive VMware expertise, strong automation skills, and a track record of delivering major infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years in VMware-based infra design and support.
• 5+ years IT infrastructure admin leadership or management roles.
• Strong VMware tech and storage experience (Pure Storage, SAN/NAS, SSD arrays).

Responsibilities

• Support and optimize VMware-based infra for performance, availability, and security.
• Lead complex incidents, root cause analysis, and post-mortems.
• Mentor engineers across operational teams and promote best practices.
• Drive automation and efficiency across cloud, virtualization, and storage ops.
• Develop runbooks, standards, and operational procedures." ,

Skills

VMware expertise

Storage & virtualization

Automation scripting

Leadership

Incident response

Customer communication

Documentation

On-call support

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

PowerShell/PowerCLI

Python

Terraform

VMware vSphere

VMware vSAN

Zerto

Nutanix AHV

Azure

AWS

Job description

Job Locations

US

Overview

This is asenior-level cloud administration roleresponsible for daily operational services and driving improvements across storage and virtualization infrastructure. This role will be focused on deep technical expertise, demonstrateownership of complex systems, and actively mentoring junior team members. Regular interaction with internal teams and clients is expected, with an emphasis onsolution design,technical leadership, andcontinuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support, manage, maintain, monitor, and optimize cloud, virtualization, and storage infrastructure to ensure high levels of performance, availability, scalability, and security.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for storage, virtualization, and cloud platforms, providing advanced troubleshooting, performance tuning, root cause analysis, and incident resolution.
• Act as an escalation point for complex customer and operational issues, leading major incident response, post-mortem reviews, and cross-functional problem resolution efforts.
• Lead, mentor, and train engineers across operational teams, promoting technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and effective troubleshooting methodologies.
• Manage and complete complex infrastructure projects, collaborating with Architecture, Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to implement strategic initiatives and emerging technologies.
• Develop, document, and promote best practices, standards, policies, and operational procedures related to cloud, virtualization, and storage environments.
• Partner with customers, peers, and leadership to identify recurring issues, recommend strategic solutions, and drive continuous service improvement.
• Monitor and respond to alerts, escalations, service requests, and major incidents while maintaining ownership and effective communication through resolution.
• Manage ticket queues and provide clear, professional, and timely communication to internal and external customers.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide after-hours support as required.
• Drive automation and process improvement initiatives to increase operational efficiency, consistency, and service quality.
• Maintain a deep understanding of current and emerging virtualization, cloud, and storage technologies and evaluate their applicability to business objectives.
• Exercise sound judgment, professionalism, and confidentiality while operating in high-pressure and sensitive environments.
• Consistently deliver exceptional internal and external customer service aligned with Company values and operational standards.
• Support departmental objectives, strategic initiatives, and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting VMware-based infrastructure, with expert-level proficiency in virtualization technologies.
• 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure administration and technical leadership or management roles.
• Strong experience with VMware technologies, including vSphere, vSAN, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms, including Pure Storage, SAN, NAS, and high-performance SSD-based storage arrays.
• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity technologies, including VMware Site Recovery solutions and Zerto.
• 3+ years of experience developing automation and operational efficiencies through scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, Terraform, or similar technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of infrastructure troubleshooting, performance analysis, root cause analysis, and capacity planning across virtualization, storage, and cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup and recovery technologies, security best practices, and enterprise infrastructure resiliency.
• Intermediate understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including VLANs, link aggregation, switching, routing fundamentals, and network troubleshooting.
• VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification preferred or equivalent industry certification.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze infrastructure and performance metrics, identify trends, and make recommendations for operational improvements and critical escalations.
• Excellent customer relationship management skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong documentation skills with experience creating and maintaining technical procedures, runbooks, knowledge base articles, architecture diagrams, and operational standards.
• Proven ability to lead teams, mentor technical staff, manage priorities, and successfully deliver multiple projects simultaneously.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with the ability to work independently while thriving in a collaborative, fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and standard Windows-based business applications.

Preferred Experience

• Vmware VCF9 Experience
• Nutanix AHV Experience
• Azure or AWS Experience
• Azure Local Experience
• Zerto Experience
• Strong analytical skills to interpret a variety of infrastructure and performance metrics to make recommendations for high priority escalations.
• Strong client management skills including written and verbal communication. Willingness to meet and work with clients to discuss and outline technologies and processes that could improve their current environment.

Working Conditions

• Work from Home

Pay Transparency

TierPoint is committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. We provide a compensation range for roles that may be hired in locations with pay transparency law requirements. It's important to note the pay range may be narrower than displayed, as various factors are used to determine the offered compensation package including skill set, level of experience, geographic locations, and other relevant factors- i.e. budgetary requirements.

Pay Range $95,778.92 - $143.668.38

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