Senior VMware Platform Engineer — Global Infra & Automation

Apex Systems; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K plan

HSA

Employee stock purchase program

Career coaching

Training & certification

Job summary

Everforth Apex seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to drive VMware and OpenShift Virtualization (OSV) initiatives across global infrastructure. You will design, deploy, and support virtualization platforms, implement automation, and ensure security and reliability for large-scale deployments.

You will engage in capacity forecasting, build end-to-end observability, and partner with application teams to meet demand.

Qualifications

• Practical experience in two programming languages, or advanced one language development.
• 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 (KVM, VMware).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, deploy, administer, and protect global virtualization hosting solutions.
• Architect, design, install and support VMware and OSV platforms.
• Perform capacity planning across compute, VMs, memory, storage, and network.
• Develop automation scripts and playbooks for VM tasks and auditing.
• Implement SRE principles to improve platform stability and efficiency.
• Provide technical consulting for OSV solutions and tiered support.
• Create and maintain internal and customer-facing documentation.
• Participate in L1–L3 support and after-hours/on-call shifts.

Skills

Kubernetes

VMware

Root Cause Analysis

Troubleshooting

Cloud Architecture

DevOps

GitHub

Cloud Infrastructure

Change Management

Technical Analysis

Tekton

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Dynatrace

GCP

Information Security

Automation

VMware ESX Servers

Platform Support

Infrastructure Architectures

Education

Associate Degree

College Senior standing

Tools

GitHub

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Everforth Apex seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to drive VMware and OpenShift Virtualization (OSV) initiatives across global infrastructure. You will design, deploy, and support virtualization platforms, implement automation, and ensure security and reliability for large-scale deployments.

You will engage in capacity forecasting, build end-to-end observability, and partner with application teams to meet demand.