VCF Cloud Platform Engineer I

HDR; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 87,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I for an on-site role in the United States. The role focuses on day-to-day ops of the VCF private cloud, managing vSphere clusters, ESXi hosts, and infrastructure deployment.

You’ll patch, upgrade, and automate infrastructure tasks while maintaining documentation and runbooks. The position supports 24/7 operations with a 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM shift window, on-call flexibility, and collaboration across compute, storage, and networking components.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years in infrastructure operations, virtualization, or systems administration.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere administration.
• Experience managing ESXi hosts, clusters, and virtual machines.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code concepts and repeatable deployment methods.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows Server administration.
• Experience with at least one scripting or automation tool such as PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible.
• Understanding of core datacenter concepts including compute, storage, networking, patching, and monitoring.
• Ability to support operational tasks in a production environment with attention to change control and service stability.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day operational support for the VCF private cloud platform under established procedures and guidance.
• Support administration of SDDC Manager, workload domains, and vSphere cluster operations.
• Execute routine platform tasks such as host adds/removals, cluster maintenance, certificate updates, and health checks.
• Assist with VCF lifecycle operations including patching, upgrades, and remediation activities.
• Provision infrastructure resources and support deployment of workload domains and virtual machine hosting environments.
• Monitor platform health, utilization, and capacity; elevate risks, threshold concerns, and recurring issues to senior engineers or the Platform Manager.
• Participate in incident response as a first responder for infrastructure and platform issues.
• Support maintenance of infrastructure-as-code templates, standard builds, and golden VM images.
• Cross-train across compute, storage, and networking components within VCF.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and support knowledge articles.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi

PowerCLI

Python

Ansible

Linux

Windows Server

IaC

Tools

SDDC Manager

vSAN

NSX

Monitoring platforms

Job description

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I for an on-site role in the United States. The role focuses on day-to-day ops of the VCF private cloud, managing vSphere clusters, ESXi hosts, and infrastructure deployment.

You’ll patch, upgrade, and automate infrastructure tasks while maintaining documentation and runbooks. The position supports 24/7 operations with a 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM shift window, on-call flexibility, and collaboration across compute, storage, and networking components.