Hiring for Cloud (VMware) Platform Engineer
Location: Sydney
Position: Permanent
Role Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled VMware / OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build and support enterprise grade virtualisation and container platforms. The role focuses on ensuring high availability, automation, scalability, performance tuning and lifecycle management across on prem and hybrid cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
- NOCR new platforms( VMware, OpenShift, Backup and storage ) and handover to operations
- Onboarding platform to security controls ( Nessus, Pentest and Prisma)
- Remediate and fix vulnerabilities
- Onboarding assets to TPAM/Safeguard platform for privilege access accounts
- Tenant and host migrations planning
- Onboarding new tenants to the VMware /OpenShift platform
- Performance optimization and capacity planning
- LDAP/AD integration and UAM onboarding
- Manage VMware vSphere infrastructure
- Building new ESXi  clusters/ servers
Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years engineering experience across enterprise VMware platforms:
- vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX T
- Hands on experience deploying and operating OpenShift clusters (OCP3.x/4.x)
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, registries, operators and networking
- Practical automation experience with:
- Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Git, Jenkins / GitLab CI , Nessus, Pentest and Prisma
- Storage and network fundamentals (NFS, iSCSI, Load Balancers, DNS, TLS)
- Experience with monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk
Nice to Have
- RHCSA / RHCE / OpenShift certifications
- VMware VCP / VCAP certifications
- Cloud knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with Service Mesh, API Gateways or GitOps (ArgoCD)
- Scripting: Bash / Python
- Previous working experience with Australia Telcos are preferred
Ability to support 24x7 or on call environments (if required)
Note - Must have valid Australian work Authorization.
Cloud (VMware) Platform Engineer employer: CareCone Group
CareCone Group is an exceptional employer located in the vibrant city of Sydney, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. Employees benefit from ongoing professional development opportunities, competitive remuneration, and a supportive environment that values work-life balance. Joining our team means being part of a forward-thinking organisation dedicated to delivering high-quality IT solutions while ensuring compliance with Australian working rights.
