VCF Platform Engineer Manager
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In the role of VCF Platform Engineer Manager, we'll count on you to\:
- Directly manage VCF Platform engineers and/or leads; set clear expectations for delivery, accountability, collaboration, and professional growth.
- Own the platform roadmap and service catalog; prioritize the engineering backlog based on business value, risk, lifecycle requirements, and operational needs.
- Track and report platform KPIs, including availability, provisioning time, cost per VM, incident mean time to restore (MTTR), utilization, and service delivery performance.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for platform incidents, service degradation, capacity constraints, and cross-functional issue resolution.
- Coordinate with FinOps, cybersecurity, application, network, storage, and infrastructure teams through defined operational and governance interfaces.
- Lead the weekly planning cadence for the platform team, including backlog review, priorities, delivery status, dependencies, and risk management.
- Report platform health, cost, service performance, and strategic recommendations to infrastructure leadership.
- Ensure the private cloud platform is operated as a reliable, scalable, cost-effective service aligned to enterprise standards and business requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement in platform operations, engineering practices, lifecycle management, resiliency, and service consumption.
- Partner with architecture and engineering stakeholders to evaluate platform enhancements, modernization opportunities, and future-state capabilities.
- Support operational governance activities, including change review, incident review, problem management, capacity planning, and service performance reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- VMware certification such as VCP-VCF, VCP-DCV, or other relevant VMware platform certifications.
- Experience operating infrastructure using a platform-as-a-product or service ownership model.
- Experience with FinOps, cost modeling, infrastructure unit economics, showback/chargeback, or cost optimization practices.
- Familiarity with hybrid cloud operating models and integration points between private cloud and public cloud services.
- Experience with automation and infrastructure management tools such as PowerCLI, Terraform, Ansible, vRealize/Aria, or similar orchestration platforms.
- Experience with service catalog management, self-service provisioning, and standard service offering design.
- Knowledge of resiliency, disaster recovery, backup, and high availability design principles for enterprise platforms.
- Exposure to cybersecurity and compliance requirements relevant to infrastructure platforms, including vulnerability remediation and secure configuration practices.
- Experience supporting multi-site or geographically distributed data center platforms.
- Prior experience building dashboards, executive reporting, and KPI visualization for operational leadership.
- ITIL certification or equivalent practical service management experience.
- Schedule & Presence\: This on-site role supports 24/7 operations through real-time collaboration, standard shifts occur within a 6\:00 AM - 6\:00 PM window, Monday through Friday. Additionally, this position requires scheduled on-call flexibility and the ability to remain reasonably reachable during off-hours for critical business continuity.