Cloud (VMware) Platform Engineer

About Us:

At Tech Mahindra
(
Tech Mahindra | Connected World, Connected Experiences
), we live the philosophy of connected world and connected experiences. We thrive on change that is powered by the intelligent symphony of technology and humans designing meaningful and sustainable experiences. Consumer 'experiences' are driving and disrupting industries like never before. Businesses must build seamless yet simple enterprises that collaborate, synergize, and drive the change. Change that connects us all and empowers us to deliver experiences that span across the digital, the physical, the convergent, and everything in between. That's when truly connected experiences manifest.

Extraordinary is when experiences come together – a continuous convergence of digital technologies, touchpoints, and most importantly people. It's time to reimagine, reinvent, and revolutionize business models & operations as well as to transform enterprises into living, breathing, and connected businesses. We are the Digital Change makers who strive to change the way the world, communities, businesses, and humans interact digitally. We are harnessing the power of change, brought in by technologies, that makes it the most exciting time to be alive in the human history. Our universe, as we build it, disrupt it, and redesign it, is powering the digital change.

Tech Mahindra represents the connected world, offering innovative and customer-centric information technology experiences, enabling Enterprises, Associates, and the Society to Rise. It has 150,000+ professionals working for 1000+ Global Customers (including Fortune 500 companies) in 90 Countries. We're part of the esteemed Mahindra group, headquartered in Ind
ia. U
nder a new CEO, Tech Mahindra is committed to a transformative journey with 'Scale @ Speed' as our guiding principle.

About the role:

Job Title: Cloud (VMware) Platform Engineer

Experience: 5–10+ years

Role Summar

We are seeking a highly skilled VMware / OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build and support enterprise-grade virtualization 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
• Strong Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS)
• 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

Soft Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset
• Ability to work in Agile / DevOps environments
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Ability to support 24x7 or on-call environments (if required)

"Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations also are available in the hiring process for applicants with disabilities.