VCF Platform Engineer I

HDR; Pennington (NJ); On-site; USD 96,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short/long-term disability

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Paid time off

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Retirement plan with employer match

Employee referral bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to join our on-site team in a role that supports a private cloud environment. You will perform routine platform operations, manage vSphere clusters, and assist with lifecycle tasks including patching and upgrades, ensuring steady, reliable infrastructure for critical workloads.

The ideal candidate has hands-on VMware vSphere experience, familiarity with SDDC Manager, and scripting skills in PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure operations, virtualization, or systems administration.
• Hands-on VMware vSphere administration.
• Experience managing ESXi hosts, clusters, and VMs.
• 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.

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

vSAN concepts

NSX concepts

Linux administration

Windows Server administration

PowerCLI

Python

Ansible

Tools

SDDC Manager

vSphere management

Job description

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to join our on-site team in a role that supports a private cloud environment. You will perform routine platform operations, manage vSphere clusters, and assist with lifecycle tasks including patching and upgrades, ensuring steady, reliable infrastructure for critical workloads.

The ideal candidate has hands-on VMware vSphere experience, familiarity with SDDC Manager, and scripting skills in PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible.