VCF Platform Engineer 2
About the role
Independently operate and support the VCF private cloud platform across multiple workload domains and clusters. As part of a collaborative, employee-owned culture, you will help create a welcoming environment where every team member is valued and empowered to bring their authentic self and novel ideas to work every day.
Responsibilities
- Perform and validate lifecycle operations including patching, upgrades, certificate rotations, and platform remediation.
- Provision and optimize workload domains and shared hosting resources for internal customers.
- Troubleshoot platform issues across compute, storage, and network layers with limited supervision.
- Build, maintain, and improve IaC templates, golden images, and standard deployment patterns.
- Monitor service performance, utilization, and growth trends; recommend remediation or capacity adjustments.
- Partner with adjacent teams on issue resolution involving virtualization, storage, networking, and server platforms.
- Participate in on-call rotation and serve as a primary technical responder for common platform incidents.
- Contribute to runbook development, operational standardization, and service improvement efforts.
- Support adoption of additional VCF platform tools and related private cloud services.
- Assist with automation of recurring operational tasks and manual workflows.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in virtualization, infrastructure engineering, or private cloud operations.
- Proven hands-on experience administering VCF, SDDC Manager, and vSphere environments.
- Experience executing lifecycle operations in production environments.
- Working knowledge of vSAN and NSX in support of hosted platform services.
- Experience troubleshooting across compute, storage, and virtual networking domains.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain scripts or automation workflows using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, or similar tools.
- Experience with server operating systems, patching, monitoring, and platform support practices.
- Ability to manage operational priorities in a multi-system production environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- VMware certification such as VCP-VCF, VCP-DCV, or related advanced certification.
- Experience with Aria Operations, Aria Automation, Aria Suite Lifecycle, or similar VCF ecosystem tools.
- Familiarity with backup, recovery, or disaster recovery platforms supporting VCF-hosted workloads.
- Exposure to private cloud service design, hosting standards, or tenant-oriented service delivery.
- Experience with API-based automation and integration across infrastructure platforms.
Schedule
This on-site role supports 24/7 operations through real-time collaboration. Standard shifts occur within a 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM window, Monday through Friday. The position requires scheduled on-call flexibility and the ability to remain reasonably reachable during off-hours for critical business continuity.
Pay
- Folsom, CA; Denver, CO; Englewood, CO: $111,650 – $159,500
- Minneapolis, MN; St. Paul, MN: $106,575 – $152,250
- Pennington, NJ: $116,725 – $166,750
- Woodcliff Lake, NJ: $126,875 – $181,250
- Olympia, WA: $101,500 – $145,000
Additional locations: Phoenix, AZ; Austin, TX; Kansas City, MO; Columbia, SC; Vienna, VA; Saint Louis Park, MN; Portland, OR; Orlando, FL; Harrisburg, PA; Salem, OR; Fort Worth, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; San Antonio, TX; Dallas, TX; Albuquerque, NM.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package promoting employee ownership, health, performance, and success.
- Medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance.
- Employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays.
- Retirement savings plan with employer match.
- Employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.
- Eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) with executive sponsors, open to all employees.