VCF Platform Engineer I | VMware & SDDC Ops

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to provide day-to-day operational support for the VCF private cloud, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance with established procedures. You will help manage SDDC Manager, workload domains, and vSphere cluster operations, performing routine tasks and contributing to incident response.

You will monitor health and capacity, assist with patching and upgrades, and help maintain IaC templates, standard builds, and golden VM images.

Qualifications

• 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 scripting or automation tools such as PowerCLI, Python, or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day operational support for the VCF private cloud platform.
• 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; escalate risks and issues to senior engineers or 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

Scripting / Automation

Linux administration

Windows administration

IaC concepts

Networking basics

Python

PowerCLI

Tools

PowerCLI

Python

Ansible

Job description

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to provide day-to-day operational support for the VCF private cloud, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance with established procedures. You will help manage SDDC Manager, workload domains, and vSphere cluster operations, performing routine tasks and contributing to incident response.

You will monitor health and capacity, assist with patching and upgrades, and help maintain IaC templates, standard builds, and golden VM images.