VCF Platform Engineer I — VMware & SDDC Ops

HDR; Saint Louis Park (MN); On-site; USD 87,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Paid time away

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Retirement savings with employer match

Employee referral bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to deliver day-to-day operations for the VCF private cloud and support SDDC Manager, vSphere, and workload domains. You will manage host Add/Removals, cluster maintenance, and health checks while assisting with patching, upgrades, and remediation activities.

The role requires 3+ years in infrastructure operations, VMware vSphere administration, ESXi cluster experience, and scripting or automation skills (PowerCLI, Python, Ansible).

Qualifications

• Minimum 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.

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

Linux administration

Windows Server administration

Scripting/Automation

Infrastructure as code

Change control & reliability

Tools

VMware vSphere

ESXi hosts & clusters

SDDC Manager

NSX/VSAN concepts

PowerCLI/Python/Ansible

Job description

HDR is seeking a VCF Platform Engineer I to deliver day-to-day operations for the VCF private cloud and support SDDC Manager, vSphere, and workload domains. You will manage host Add/Removals, cluster maintenance, and health checks while assisting with patching, upgrades, and remediation activities.

The role requires 3+ years in infrastructure operations, VMware vSphere administration, ESXi cluster experience, and scripting or automation skills (PowerCLI, Python, Ansible).