Platform Engineering Engineer

Dearborn, Michigan Platform Engineering Engineer #1064118

• Responsible for engineering, deployment, operational administration, and protection of Global enterprise solutions to meet the Virtualization Server Hosting requirements for a variety of infrastructure systems, line of business and third‑party application needs
• Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization (VMware and Open Shift Virtualization (OSV)) suite of products
• Responsible for the entire lifecycle of technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software
• Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines
• Demonstrates knowledge of hardware and software products
• Research industry best practices and trends
• Global large‑scale deployments of virtualization technologies
• Support HPE Synergy/Pro Liant ILO and firmware field testing

• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the platforms, including Compute/Virtual Machine (VM), memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion
• Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization
• Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs
• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning

• Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive VMware/OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management (like snapshot removal), auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems
• Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Role Based Access Control deployment and auditing
• Namespace and Resource Quota management (CPU, Disk and Storage)

• Implement and maintain comprehensive end to end observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the VMware/OSV environment, including integration with tools like Dynatrace, RHACM and Prometheus/Grafana
• Explore and implement Event Driven Architecture (EDA) for enhanced real time monitoring and response
• Develop capabilities to flag and report abnormalities and identify "blind spots" in observability
• Perform deep dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA), potentially utilizing available tooling, to quickly identify and resolve issues across the global compute environment
• Find the needle in a haystack/unhealthy bits in the compute universe (Globally) for faster time to resolution
• Monitor VM health, resource usage, and performance metrics proactively
• Monitor for unusual activity that might indicate a compromise or misconfiguration

• Provide technical consulting and expertise to application teams requiring VMware/OSV solutions
• Design, implement, and validate custom or dedicated OSV clusters and VM solutions for critical applications with unique or complex requirements (e.g., specialized appliances)

• Create, maintain, and update comprehensive internal documentation and customer facing content to facilitate self service and clearly articulate platform capabilities

• Participate in L1 - L3 level support to Operations teams environmental related issues.
• Monthly after hours and weekend work will be required

• Scripting, Automation, Kubernetes, Root Cause…