VCF Platform Engineer I – Private Cloud Ops

HDR; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to support the private cloud operations in a on-site capacity. You will manage vSphere clusters, ESXi hosts, and VMs while contributing to patching, upgrades, and incident response, ensuring stable production services.

Ideal candidates have hands-on VMware vSphere experience, Linux/Windows server administration, and scripting skills (PowerCLI, Python, Ansible). This role emphasizes collaboration across compute, storage, and networking teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years 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 deployments
• Linux and Windows Server administration
• Scripting/automation with PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible
• Understanding of datacenter compute, storage, networking, patching, and monitoring
• Ability to operate in production with change control and reliability

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day operational support for the VCF private cloud platform.
• Administer SDDC Manager, workload domains, and vSphere cluster operations.
• Execute routine platform tasks: host adds/removals, cluster maintenance, cert updates, health checks.
• Assist with VCF lifecycle: patching, upgrades, remediation.
• Provision infrastructure resources and support workload deployment.
• Monitor platform health, utilization, capacity; raise risks to senior engineers or Platform Manager.
• Participate in incident response for infrastructure issues.
• Support infrastructure-as-code templates, standard builds, golden VM images.
• Cross-train across compute, storage, and networking within VCF.
• Maintain runbooks and knowledge articles.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi hosts

Scripting/Automation

Linux

Windows Server

PowerCLI

Python

Ansible

Infrastructure as code

NSX

vSAN

SDDC Manager

Tools

SDDC Manager

vSAN

NSX

Job description

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to support the private cloud operations in a on-site capacity. You will manage vSphere clusters, ESXi hosts, and VMs while contributing to patching, upgrades, and incident response, ensuring stable production services.

Ideal candidates have hands-on VMware vSphere experience, Linux/Windows server administration, and scripting skills (PowerCLI, Python, Ansible). This role emphasizes collaboration across compute, storage, and networking teams.