VCF Platform Engineer Lead

HDR
Austin, CA
Job Description
At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day.

Requirements

  • Provide technical leadership for the VCF private cloud platform, including operational strategy, engineering standards, and service direction.
  • Own the technical vision for private cloud hosting services built on VCF, including scalability, resiliency, automation, and supportability.
  • Lead design and adoption of advanced VCF platform capabilities, ecosystem tooling, and integrated private cloud services.
  • Establish engineering patterns for platform lifecycle management, self-service enablement, standard hosting offerings, and policy-driven automation.
  • Oversee complex upgrades, platform transformations, and high-severity incident response as senior technical lead.
  • Define and mature automation strategy across provisioning, compliance, patching, lifecycle, observability, and recovery operations.
  • Drive platform integration with security, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, CMDB, ITSM, and other enterprise service components.
  • Partner with management and architecture leaders on roadmap planning, investment priorities, technical risk reduction, and service maturity.
  • Set standards for operational excellence, reliability, support readiness, and engineering quality across the platform team.
  • Coach senior engineers, lead technical decision-making, and serve as the escalation point for the most complex platform issues.
  • Influence hosting service design for internal consumers, including service tiers, automation standards, availability targets, and lifecycle policies.
  • Represent the platform domain in cross-functional initiatives involving datacenter modernization, hybrid cloud, platform engineering, and infrastructure transformation.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.
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