Principal Engineer - Virtual Platform

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

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 delivery of virtualization plans that improve reliability, supportability, compliance, and operational effectiveness while promoting industry standards.

You will report to the Platform Engineering Virtualization Supervisor and be located at Columbia, SC. This is a hybrid role with 2 days a week working remote. We do not offer relocation for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Virtualization Platform Engineering

  • 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 that 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 our needs.

  • Provide technical leadership through guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer.

  Standards, Automation & Continuous Improvement

  • 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 latest virtualization technologies and platform capabilities.

  Service Transition & Operational Readiness

  • 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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Information Systems or similar degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years' experience in IT infrastructure with at least 5 years dedicated to server virtualization

• Experience in at least one hypervisor platform (VMWare, HPE VME, KVM)

• Experience with virtual networking, distributed switching, and infrastructure integration

• Experience with disaster recovery, replication, and recovery orchestration platforms (Zerto)

• Infrastructure monitoring, performance analysis, and capacity planning

• Virtualization security, hardening, and compliance

We are committed to transparency and equity in all of our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be $103,200 to $129,000 per year.

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Why Westinghouse?

Our benefits package is tailored to meet the diverse needs of our employees, while also promoting wellness and career growth. The following are representative of what we offer:

• Comprehensive Medical benefits which could include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions options

• Wellness Programs designed to support employees in maintaining their health and well-being including Employee Assistance Program providing support for our employees and their household members

• 401(k) with Company Match Contributions to support employees' retirement

• Paid Vacations and Company Holidays

• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements to promote work-life balance

• Educational Reimbursement and Comprehensive Career Programs to help employees grow in their careers

• Global Recognition and Service Programs to celebrate employee accomplishments and service

• Employee Referral Program

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality

• Integrity and Trust

• Customer Focus and Innovation

• Speed and Passion to Win

• Teamwork and Accountability

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 11,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities

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