Job Summary:
HDR is a company that values employee engagement and inclusivity. They are seeking a VCF Platform Engineer 1 to support day-to-day operations of the VCF private cloud platform, manage infrastructure resources, and assist with lifecycle operations.
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; escalate 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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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.
• 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.
Preferred:
• VMware certification such as VCP-VCF or VCP-DCV.
• Exposure to SDDC Manager operations.
• Familiarity with vSAN and NSX concepts.
• Exposure to enterprise monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Experience supporting standardized virtual server hosting environments.
Company:
HDR is an employee-owned design firm specializing in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services. We’re ranked No. Founded in 1917, the company is headquartered in Omaha, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.