RESPONSIBILITIES
Kforce is immediately seeking an experienced GreenLake Cloud Platform Engineer in support of our enterprise storage and compute customer based in Fort Collins, CO. The candidate needs to be within 1 Time-Zone of MST (Ideally, 'in' MST).
Our client is seeking two experienced contract engineers to support the SilverCreek on-prem platform initiative. These individuals will augment the existing engineering team responsible for delivering, validating, maintaining, and automating the deployment of CCP infrastructure and platform services within highly secure, disconnected customer environments.
The ideal candidates will possess deep hands-on experience with VMware-based infrastructure, Linux systems administration, cloud management platforms, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes ecosystems, and deployment of software into air-gapped environments. This role is highly technical and requires engineers who are comfortable operating across infrastructure, automation, platform engineering, deployment validation, security hardening, and operational troubleshooting.
Key Responsibilities
- On-Prem Platform Delivery:
- Deploy, configure, and maintain VMware vSphere/ESXi environments supporting HPE GreenLake workloads
- Support CCP platform packaging, delivery, installation, and lifecycle management for SilverCreek deployments
- Assist with infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and release validation activities
- Troubleshoot deployment, integration, and operational issues across platform infrastructure and services
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code:
- Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure automation
- Automate provisioning workflows through Morpheus or equivalent cloud management platforms
- Support Git-based CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform delivery
- Create automated deployment validation frameworks, health checks, smoke tests, and infrastructure testing solutions
REQUIREMENTS
Required Technical Skills:
VMware Infrastructure (Highest Priority):
VMware vSphere/ESXi administration
VMware vCenter management
Cluster configuration and operations
Datastore management
High Availability (HA)
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Virtual machine lifecycle management
Platform Automation:
Terraform (required)
Infrastructure as Code methodologies
Git-based workflows
CI/CD automation
API-driven infrastructure provisioning
Linux Administration:
Advanced Linux systems administration
Performance tuning and troubleshooting
Operating system lifecycle management
Shell scripting and automation
Kubernetes Ecosystem:
Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
Helm package management
Container lifecycle management
Cluster operations and support
Cloud Management Platforms:
Experience with one or more of:
Company Morpheus (preferred)
VMware Aria/vRealize
CloudBolt
Comparable private cloud platforms
Preferred Skills:
Air-Gapped Deployments:
Offline package management
Artifact bundling and promotion
Disconnected software delivery
Container image curation and management
Private registries and repositories
Image & VM Engineering:
Golden image creation
VM template management
OVF/OVA workflows
Cloud-init
Sysprep
Packer
Networking & Storage:
VLAN configuration and troubleshooting
VMware vSwitches
DNS, DHCP, and NTP services
NFS
iSCSI
vSAN
Security & Compliance:
STIG implementation
FIPS-compliant environments
Security hardening
Certificate management
Secure infrastructure deployment practices
Software Packaging:
Container image management
Helm chart packaging and vendoring
RPM repository administration
DEB repository administration
Validation & Testing:
Experience with one or more:
Goss
pytest
Ansible validation frameworks
Infrastructure testing automation
Compensation Information
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
Benefits
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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