HPE GreenLake Cloud Platform Engineering (CCP) 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.
Person selected needs to be within 1 Time-Zone of MST (Ideally, 'in' MST).
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.
- Air-Gapped & Regulated Environment Support
- Design and support software delivery into disconnected or highly restricted environments.
- Maintain private package repositories, image registries, and artifact distribution processes.
- Manage certificate lifecycles, PKI integrations, and offline dependency management.
- Support compliance and security requirements including STIG, FIPS, and similar regulated deployment standards.
- Platform Operations
- Support Linux infrastructure and Kubernetes platform services.
- Troubleshoot networking, storage, and virtualization-related issues.
- Collaborate with platform engineering teams to optimize deployment reliability and operational efficiency.
- Participate in issue triage, root cause analysis, and operational readiness reviews.
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:
HPE 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
Desired Experience
- 5+ years of infrastructure engineering or platform engineering experience.
- Experience supporting enterprise private cloud or on-premises platforms.
- Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
- Experience supporting Kubernetes-based platform services.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Success Criteria
- The successful contractors will help CCP:
- Accelerate SilverCreek deployment and release activities.
- Improve deployment automation and validation.
- Reduce engineering toil associated with on-prem package delivery.
- Improve infrastructure reliability and operational readiness.
- Support secure, compliant deployments into disconnected customer environments.
- Increase team capacity for SilverCreek-related engineering initiatives.
Vendor Screening Keywords
Must-Have Keywords
VMware ESXi
vCenter
Terraform
Linux
Kubernetes
Helm
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Strongly Preferred
Morpheus
Air-Gapped Deployments
STIG
FIPS
Packer
OVF/OVA
Private Registry
vSAN
NFS
iSCSI
Bonus
HPE GreenLake
Cloud Platform Engineering
Regulated Government Environments
DoD IL4/IL5
OpenTofu
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