- Provide technical leadership for enterprise compute and virtualization platforms, including strategic planning, architecture, engineering standards and lifecycle management
- Lead platform modernization initiatives, including infrastructure transformation, hypervisor strategy, hardware refresh programs, automation and cloud integration efforts
- Develop target-state platform architectures enabling scalability, resiliency, security and operational efficiency
- Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends and vendor roadmaps to guide platform investment decisions and long-term technology direction
- Define and maintain engineering standards, reference architectures, technical patterns and operational best practices
- Lead technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, platform evaluations and technology validation activities
- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, application and security teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise requirements and business objectives
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation, self-service capabilities and modern platform engineering practices
- Provide technical oversight and governance for major platform initiatives
- Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations covering technology strategies, risks, trade-offs, investment recommendations and modernization roadmaps
- Present solution architectures and technology recommendations to Architecture Review Boards, Design Review Committees and senior leadership forums
- Serve as a senior technical advisor on compute, virtualization and infrastructure technologies
- Mentor engineering teams and advance platform engineering capabilities, operational maturity and engineering excellence

Requirements





- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, systems architecture, or enterprise technology leadership roles
- Deep expertise in enterprise virtualization technologies, including VMware vSphere (required)
- Nutanix AHV and ecosystem technologies preferred
- Additional hypervisor platforms such as Hyper-V or KVM considered an asset
- Robust understanding of enterprise compute platforms, including Dell PowerEdge and/or HPE ProLiant infrastructure
- Experience with blade, rack and converged infrastructure architectures
- Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization and transformation programs
- Strong knowledge of x86 platform architecture, virtualization, clustering, high availability and disaster recovery technologies
- Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-enabled operating models
- Experience evaluating, documenting and executing complex proof-of-concepts involving multiple stakeholders and technology vendors
- Experience developing technology strategies, roadmaps, standards and reference architectures
- Strong understanding of automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python and GitOps methodologies
- Knowledge of platform engineering concepts, including self-service infrastructure,



developer platforms, automation and operational excellence
- Experience working within large enterprise environments with formal architecture governance processes
- Excellent executive communication skills, with ability to translate technical complexity into business-focused recommendations
- Proven ability to influence strategic decisions and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority
- Experience supporting financial services, regulated industries or large-scale enterprise environments preferred
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift preferred
- Experience integrating platform engineering practices with cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure solutions preferred
- Industry certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP, Azure, AWS, TOGAF or equivalent preferred

Core Competencies

Demonstrates deep expertise in enterprise virtualization technologies, particularly VMware vSphere, and strong knowledge of automation frameworks such as Terraform and Ansible. Proven ability to lead large-scale infrastructure modernization initiatives while aligning platform capabilities with business objectives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

- VMware vSphere Expertise
- Infrastructure Modernization Leadership
- Automation Frameworks Knowledge
- Enterprise Virtualization Technologies
- Executive Communication Skills

ATS Optimization Keywords

Soft Skills

- Mentoring Engineering Teams
- Influencing Strategic Decisions
- Collaboration Across Teams
- Technical Oversight
- Executive-Level Presentation Skills

Certifications & Qualifications

- VMware VCP/VCAP
- Nutanix NCP
- Azure Certification

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