Senior Platform Engineer – Private Cloud & AI Automation

Nexcess; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nexcess is seeking an experienced Private Cloud Engineer to own platform features end to end within the Private Cloud Solutions domain. You will design, deploy, and operate private cloud environments using Nutanix and VMware, ensuring reliability and security.

You will work with a remote, distributed team across time zones, participate in on‑call rotations, and mentor engineers while applying AI‑assisted tooling to daily engineering tasks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Nutanix administration, including cluster design, deployment, and setup.
• 5+ years of experience with Nutanix multi-tenant environments, including installation, administration, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of virtualization, compute, storage, networking, and production infrastructure.
• Experience building, operating, and supporting highly available private cloud or virtualized environments.
• Experience troubleshooting complex issues across multiple infrastructure layers.
• Experience planning and executing infrastructure changes in production environments.
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and responding to production incidents.
• Ability to work effectively in unfamiliar or legacy environments and make safe, incremental improvements.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools as part of day-to-day technical work.
• Clear written communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote, distributed team across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own platform features end to end within the Private Cloud Solutions domain.
• Design, deploy, and maintain private cloud infrastructure with Nutanix and VMware.
• Build and operate multi-tenant Nutanix environments.
• Improve platform reliability and operational efficiency through automation.
• Translate requirements into clear technical specifications and risk assessments.
• Verify changes before production, with evidence of safety and operability.
• Use AI-assisted tooling as part of daily engineering while ensuring quality.
• Review infrastructure changes from other engineers and provide feedback.
• Own the systems you run, participate in on-call rotation and incident response.
• Work safely in complex/legacy environments and document improvements.
• Mentor other engineers and coordinate dependencies across teams.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams to avoid delivery blockers.

Skills

Nutanix administration

Nutanix multi-tenant environments

Virtualization

Production infrastructure

AI-assisted tooling

Remote collaboration

On-call experience

Tools

Nutanix

VMware

Infrastructure automation

Configuration management

Job description

Nexcess is seeking an experienced Private Cloud Engineer to own platform features end to end within the Private Cloud Solutions domain. You will design, deploy, and operate private cloud environments using Nutanix and VMware, ensuring reliability and security.

You will work with a remote, distributed team across time zones, participate in on‑call rotations, and mentor engineers while applying AI‑assisted tooling to daily engineering tasks.