Sr. Systems/Platform Engineer

Job Description

Join our Enterprise Hosting Services team at the forefront of secure, innovative hybrid infrastructure for one of the nation’s most critical institutions. We’re seeking a talented Platform Engineer to help architect, deploy, and manage our on-premises Virtual Cloud (VMware) platforms, our AWS Cloud platforms while supporting emerging AI capabilities, modern containerized workloads, and enterprise virtualization environments.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and AWS GovCloud, ensuring compliance with federal security standards


• Administer and optimize hyper-visor clusters (VMware vSphere, ESXi) for enterprise workloads


• Manage Kubernetes fleet operations across on-premises VMware vSphere with Kubernetes (VKS) and AWS EKS


• Lead application modernization initiatives, migrating and optimizing workloads across cloud and on-premises environments


• Implement comprehensive audit logging, monitoring, and observability solutions across hybrid environments


• Support security engineering initiatives including vulnerability management, compliance automation, and security hardening


• Support emerging AI/ML capabilities and cloud-native solutions


• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD pipelines


• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment using Jira for project management


• Ensure systems meet NIST 800-53 and FISMA compliance requirements


• Automate operational tasks and improve platform reliability across both cloud and on-premises infrastructure


• Contribute to architectural decisions and hybrid cloud strategy

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in supporting enterprise-grade ESXi servers and VMware server software.


• Experience designing, planning, testing, implementing, supporting and troubleshooting large VMware installations


• Expert knowledge of ESXi server implementations and operations, VLAN, VMC, primary, secondary data center operations and hybrid cloud implementations


• Experience with Aria Automation, Aria Orchestrator and Aria Operations


• Experience with Powershell/Powercli scripting


• On-premises data center and AWS GovCloud experience


• Kubernetes fleet management experience (VKS, EKS, Mirantis)


• VMware vSphere administration and cluster management


• Knowledge of NIST 800-53 controls and FISMA compliance frameworks


• Experience with security engineering, audit logging, and monitoring tools


• Application modernization and containerization experience


• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and services


• GitLab and Jira experience


• VMware or Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)


• Experience in financial services or federal government environments