GreenLake Cloud Platform Engineer Job Fort Collins area,Colorado USA,IT/Tech

Kforce is immediately seeking an experienced Green Lake 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),

Summary:

Our client is seeking two experienced contract engineers to support the Silver Creek 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 Green Lake workloads
Support CCP platform packaging, delivery, installation, and lifecycle management for Silver Creek 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

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
Cloud Bolt
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

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…