Principal Engineer - Virtual Platform
About The Position
As a Principal Engineer - Virtual Platform, you will oversee the management, security, and lifecycle of enterprise virtualization supporting critical business services globally. Working within a Design-Build-Run operating model, you will lead virtualization delivery plans that improve reliability, supportability, compliance, and operational effectiveness while promoting industry standards. The position is based in Columbia, South Carolina, and follows a hybrid schedule with two days per week working remotely. Relocation is not offered. You will engineer and maintain virtualization platforms and lead modernization, standards, automation, service-transition, and operational-readiness efforts. You will also provide technical leadership, contribute to incident and problem investigations, support audits and recovery planning, and ensure production handoffs are supported by appropriate monitoring, documentation, procedures, and knowledge transfer.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Information Systems or a similar degree, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 5 years dedicated to server virtualization.
- Experience with at least one hypervisor platform: VMware, HPE VME, or KVM.
- Experience with virtual networking, distributed switching, and infrastructure integration.
- Experience with disaster recovery, replication, and recovery orchestration platforms such as Zerto.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring, performance analysis, and capacity planning.
- Experience with virtualization security, hardening, and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Implement virtualization improvements, upgrades, migrations, and technology refreshes.
- Review technical designs, implementation plans, and deliverables for quality, consistency, resiliency, and supportability.
- Engineer and maintain hypervisor, clustering, virtual networking, storage integration, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Lead enterprise virtualization modernization and simplification plans to reduce technical debt and operational complexity while improving reliability and supportability.
- Establish future-state virtualization architectures aligned with hybrid cloud adoption, resiliency goals, disaster recovery requirements, and evolving needs.
- Provide technical leadership through guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer.
- Develop virtualization standards for design, security hardening, lifecycle management, and operational governance.
- Increase adoption of automation, standardization, and industry best practices.
- Define integration standards across virtualization, storage, backup, cloud, monitoring, and disaster recovery services.
- Guide optimization plans focused on workload placement, host utilization, performance tuning, and operational efficiency.
- Evaluate the latest virtualization technologies and platform capabilities.
- Complete monitoring, documentation, operational procedures, disaster recovery requirements, and knowledge transfer before production handoff.
- Contribute to incident reviews, problem investigations, and implementation of corrective actions.
- Support audit, compliance, and risk requirements through technical expertise and evidence.
- Support recovery planning and validation of replication and recovery orchestration capabilities.
- Review virtualization requirements in enterprise plans and technical architecture reviews.
Benefits
- Medical benefits, potentially including medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, and a Health Savings Account with employer contributions options.
- Wellness programs, including an Employee Assistance Program for employees and household members.
- 401(k) with company match contributions.
- Paid vacations and company holidays.
- Flexible work arrangements.
- Educational reimbursement and career programs.
- Global recognition and service programs.
- Employee referral program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
