VCF Platform Engineer I — VMware & SDDC Ops

HDR; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement plan with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time away

Job summary

HDR in Olympia, WA is hiring a VCF Platform Engineer I to join our on-site team supporting the private cloud. You will help operate the VCF platform, manage vSphere clusters, perform patching and upgrades, and maintain health and compliance of the infrastructure.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in virtualization or infrastructure operations, hands-on VMware vSphere experience, and scripting skills (PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible).

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience 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

Linux administration

Windows Server administration

Scripting/Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

PowerCLI

Python

Ansible

SDDC Manager

vSAN

NSX

Job description

HDR in Olympia, WA is hiring a VCF Platform Engineer I to join our on-site team supporting the private cloud. You will help operate the VCF platform, manage vSphere clusters, perform patching and upgrades, and maintain health and compliance of the infrastructure.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in virtualization or infrastructure operations, hands-on VMware vSphere experience, and scripting skills (PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible).