Senior Engineer 2 - Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Experience with responsible use of enterprise AI tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and agentic patterns to improve individual and team efficiency, accuracy, and consistency across automation, orchestration, and daily engineering tasks through custom agents and shared prompt repositories. Experience in converting raw platform data points into insights for identifying & communicating potential issues, cost-effective solutions, or proactive platform actions to meet predicted just-in-time business needs during normal operations and DR situations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or analytical discipline, or equivalent experience
• 4+ years implementing, supporting, upgrading, securing, and migrating to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 5.2 or higher), including core components (SDDC, vCenter, ESXi, vSAN, and NSX) and adjacent VMware appliances such as Aria, vROPS, vRLI, LCM, vIDM, SRM, and vRNI.
• 4+ years implementing, supporting, upgrading, securing, and operationalizing infrastructure platform management tools such as SDDC Manager, HPE OneView, and Dell OpenManage.
• 4+ years of experience implementing, supporting, and migrating Windows Server & Red Hat operating systems in a highly segmented and secure virtual infrastructure
• 4+ years of experience with various hardware vendors product stack
• 4+ years of experience leading medium to large projects from requirements through implementation
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering for public cloud or on-premises Infrastructure as Code Automation using scripts and tools such as PowerShell, Terraform and Ansible
• 2+ years of experience in developing PowerBI, Data Bricks operational dashboards, or equivalent reporting within VMware Aria Operations, SharePoint, Data Lakes, or similar internally accessible data warehouses

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing, capacity planning, supporting, and migrating guest virtual machines of various operating systems in a highly segmented and secure virtual infrastructure
• Experience with platform-related dependencies to include server, containers, NAS/SAN, hyperconverged solutions, core network design concepts, and hybrid cloud solutions
• Experience in developing, maintaining, and executing operational automation technologies, such as Azure DevOps, VRA, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Orchestrator or SCCM OS Deployments
• Good understanding of various System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies including traditional waterfall as well as agile methodologies (i.e., SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)
• Experience working with vulnerability management tools, compliance audits, and remediation implementation & tracking activities
• Experience working in a process structured environment which includes Change Management and Disaster Recovery (DR) Preparedness
• Solid understanding of the functional and operational practices necessary to operate in a highly available, highly secure, and highly regulated environment to meet business, security, and compliance requirements
• Experience in converting raw platform data points into insights for identifying & communicating potential issues, cost-effective solutions, or proactive platform actions to meet predicted just-in-time business needs during normal operations and DR situations
• Experience with responsible use of enterprise AI tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and agentic patterns to improve individual and team efficiency, accuracy, and consistency across automation, orchestration, and daily engineering tasks through custom agents and shared prompt repositories

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