VMware Certified Advanced Professional VMware Cloud Foundation VKS Kubernetes

Tata Consultancy Services; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services seeks a platform engineer to design, deploy, and manage vSphere Kubernetes Service clusters within VMware Cloud Foundation environments.

You will enable Supervisor clusters, manage cluster lifecycles, and ensure secure, scalable operations across compute, storage, and networking layers with NSX and Avi Load Balancer integration.

Qualifications

• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, and vSphere Kubernetes Service.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, containers, and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes admin tools such as kubectl, YAML manifests, Helm charts, and container registries.
• Experience in enterprise environments with change management, incident management, capacity planning, and operational governance.
• Ability to troubleshoot across VMware Cloud Foundation, Kubernetes, compute, storage, and network layers.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage vSphere Kubernetes Service clusters within VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
• Enable and administer Supervisor clusters, vSphere Namespaces, Kubernetes clusters, and related platform services.
• Manage Kubernetes cluster lifecycle activities, including provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning.
• Configure and troubleshoot Kubernetes networking, load balancing, ingress, service discovery, and integration with NSX and Avi Load Balancer.
• Implement storage policies, persistent volumes, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery practices for containerized workloads.
• Define and enforce security controls, RBAC, identity integration, namespace policies, image registry access, and workload security standards.
• Support application teams in deploying and operating containerized workloads using Kubernetes, YAML, Helm, and related tools.
• Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and availability; troubleshoot issues across VMware, Kubernetes, networking, and storage layers.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and best practices.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and application teams to support enterprise platform engineering initiatives.

Skills

VMware

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

Security basics

Tools

kubectl

YAML manifests

Helm charts

Container registries

NSX/Avi Load Balancer

Job description

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

• Strong experience in VMware infrastructure, cloud platform administration, Kubernetes operations, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, and vSphere Kubernetes Service.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, containers, microservices, namespaces, pods, services, ingress, deployments, and stateful workloads.
• Experience with Kubernetes administration tools such as kubectl, YAML manifests, Helm charts, and container registries.
• Knowledge of VMware NSX, virtual networking, load balancing, DNS, routing, firewall rules, and network troubleshooting.
• Experience with storage integration, storage policies, persistent volumes, CSI drivers, backup, and recovery for Kubernetes workloads.
• Good understanding of security practices including RBAC, identity and access management, secrets management, image security, and policy enforcement.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across VMware Cloud Foundation, Kubernetes, compute, storage, and network layers.
• Experience working in enterprise environments with change management, incident management, capacity planning, and operational governance

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage vSphere Kubernetes Service clusters within VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
• Enable and administer Supervisor clusters, vSphere Namespaces, Kubernetes clusters, and related platform services.
• Manage Kubernetes cluster lifecycle activities, including provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning.
• Configure and troubleshoot Kubernetes networking, load balancing, ingress, service discovery, and integration with NSX and Avi Load Balancer.
• Implement storage policies, persistent volumes, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery practices for containerized workloads.
• Define and enforce security controls, RBAC, identity integration, namespace policies, image registry access, and workload security standards.
• Support application teams in deploying and operating containerized workloads using Kubernetes, YAML, Helm, and related tools.
• Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and availability; troubleshoot issues across VMware, Kubernetes, networking, and storage layers.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and best practices.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and application teams to support enterprise platform engineering initiatives.

Salary Range: $80,000 - $140,000 a year