Principal Analyst, Platform Engineering at Vail Resorts

Job description

Our mission is to create the Experience of a Lifetime for our employees, so they can, in turn, create the Experience of a Lifetime for our guests. We own and operate the most renowned destination resorts in the world as well as regional and local ski areas outside major cities, and connect them all through one unrivaled network. We are looking for ambitious leaders, innovators and creators to join our talented team. If you’re ready to pursue your fullest potential, we want to get to know you! Candidates for year-round positions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted up to 90 days after the posting date, or until the position is filled (whichever is first). Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Analyst to join the Infrastructure and Platform Engineering organization. This role designs, builds, automates, secures, and supports enterprise platform capabilities across Nutanix, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, secure landing zones, Terraform, DevOps practices, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on engineering experience across virtualization, cloud-native platforms, infrastructure automation, and secure platform foundations, with the ability to partner across infrastructure, security, identity, networking, and application teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and governed platforms that accelerate business outcomes. Job Specifications: • Starting Wage: $112,000 - $158,000 + Annual Bonus • Employment Type: Year Round • Shift Type: Full Time hours • Minimum Age: At least 18 years of age • Housing Availability: No Job Responsibilities: Platform Engineering, Virtualization, and Containerization • Design, implement, support, and optimize Nutanix platform capabilities, including virtualization, compute, storage, networking, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and operational resiliency. • Design, implement, support, and optimize enterprise Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift platforms across development, test, and production environments. • Engineer reusable platform patterns, deployment templates, and self-service capabilities that improve developer experience and accelerate application onboarding. • Ensure platform scalability, availability, resiliency, and operational readiness across containerized workloads. • Manage cluster lifecycle activities, including provisioning, upgrades, patching, configuration, backup, recovery, and capacity planning. • Develop platform engineering standards that connect virtualization, cloud-native platforms, infrastructure automation, secure landing zones, and operational support into a cohesive enterprise platform model. Infrastructure as Code and Automation • Develop, maintain, and govern Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and related automation frameworks. • Automate cloud and hybrid infrastructure provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, and operational workflows. • Build and maintain automated secure landing zone patterns that include standardized networking, identity integration, logging, monitoring, policy guardrails, secrets management, and compliance-ready controls. • Drive GitOps and declarative infrastructure practices to improve consistency, repeatability, and auditability. • Reduce manual operational effort by creating automated runbooks, scripts, and platform workflows. DevOps, CI/CD, and Release Enablement • Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines supporting containerized applications and platform services. • Partner with application teams to improve deployment consistency, release quality, change controls, and automated testing. • Support adoption of DevOps practices, including source control, automated builds, artifact management, and deployment governance. Cloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, and Reliability • Support Nutanix, Kubernetes, and OpenShift platforms across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. • Troubleshoot complex platform issues across compute, storage, network, DNS, ingress, certificates, identity, and application runtime layers. • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, service restoration, and continuous improvement activities. • Build platform observability, alerting, and operational dashboards to improve service health and reliability. Security, Compliance, and Governance • Implement platform security controls, including RBAC, network policies, secrets management, image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration standards. • Deploy and govern secure landing zones that establish repeatable, policy-aligned foundations for new workloads, environments, and platform services. • Partner with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure container platforms meet enterprise governance and audit requirements. • Establish and maintain platform documentation, standards, reference architectures, and operational procedures. Technical Leadership • Serve as a subject matter expert for Nutanix, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, secure landing zones, automation, and platform engineering practices. • Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and help establish engineering standards across the platform ecosystem. • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements that increase automation, reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity. Job Requirements: • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering. • Strong hands-on expertise with Nutanix platform engineering, administration, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and support of enterprise virtualization environments. • 5+ years of hands-on experience administering, operating, or engineering Kubernetes platforms in production environments. • 3+ years of hands-on Red Hat OpenShift engineering or administration experience. • Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code design, implementation, and governance. • Experience deploying secure landing zones with standardized identity, network segmentation, logging, monitoring, policy enforcement, and security controls. • Experience managing production containerized workloads at enterprise scale. • Strong Linux administration, scripting, and automation skills using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages. • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, or equivalent platforms. • Working knowledge of GitOps practices and source-controlled infrastructure workflows. • Strong understanding of networking, DNS, ingress, load balancers, certificates, storage, identity, and security concepts. • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems and partner effectively across technical teams. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with AKS, EKS, GKE, Azure, AWS, or other public cloud services. • Experience with Nutanix Cloud Platform, Nutanix AHV, Prism Central, Flow networking, or related Nutanix automation and lifecycle management capabilities. • Experience with Argo CD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize, Operators, or similar Kubernetes ecosystem tools. • Experience with HashiCorp Vault or enterprise secrets management solutions. • Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry. • Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh, or Linkerd. • Experience supporting regulated environments such as PCI, SOX, or other enterprise compliance frameworks. • Certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Red Hat OpenShift certification, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Azure, or AWS certifications. The expected Total Compensation for this role is $112,000 - $158,000 + Annual Bonus. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors. Job Benefits • Ski/Mountain Perks! Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family AND free ski lessons • MORE employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles • 401(k) Retirement Plan • Employee Assistance Program • Excellent training and professional development Full Time roles are eligible for the above, plus: • Health Insurance; Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours) • Free ski passes for dependents • Critical Illness and Accident plans Vail Resorts offers a ‘Hybrid’ work environment for Broomfield-based roles where employees must live within 50 miles of the Broomfield office and work on-site Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and have flexibility to work off-site on Mondays and Fridays. Please note that the ability to work in person or off-site, and the particulars related to such work, are subject to change at any time; and, accordingly, the Company reserves the right to change its policies and/or require in-person/in-office work or off-site work at any time in its sole discretion. In completing this application, and when submitting related documentation, applicants may redact information that identifies their age, date of birth, and/or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. We follow all federal, state, and local laws including restrictions on child/minor labor. Minors hired into this position will not be asked or permitted to engage in any activities restricted to adult workers. Vail Resorts is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. Requisition ID 518178 Reference Date: 10/08/2026 Job Code Function: Data Engineering

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Candidates for year-round positions are reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted up to 90 days after the posting date, or until the position is filled (whichever is first).
Employment Type: Year Round
Shift Type: Full Time hours
Minimum Age: At least 18 years of age
Housing Availability: No
Platform Engineering, Virtualization, and Containerization
Design, implement, support, and optimize Nutanix platform capabilities, including virtualization, compute, storage, networking, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and operational resiliency.
Design, implement, support, and optimize enterprise Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift platforms across development, test, and production environments.
Engineer reusable platform patterns, deployment templates, and self-service capabilities that improve developer experience and accelerate application onboarding.
Ensure platform scalability, availability, resiliency, and operational readiness across containerized workloads.
Manage cluster lifecycle activities, including provisioning, upgrades, patching, configuration, backup, recovery, and capacity planning.
Develop platform engineering standards that connect virtualization, cloud-native platforms, infrastructure automation, secure landing zones, and operational support into a cohesive enterprise platform model.

Nice-to-haves

Starting Wage: $112,000 - $158,000 + Annual Bonus
Experience with AKS, EKS, GKE, Azure, AWS, or other public cloud services.
Experience with Nutanix Cloud Platform, Nutanix AHV, Prism Central, Flow networking, or related Nutanix automation and lifecycle management capabilities.
Experience with Argo CD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize, Operators, or similar Kubernetes ecosystem tools.
Experience with HashiCorp Vault or enterprise secrets management solutions.
Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry.
Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh, or Linkerd.
Experience supporting regulated environments such as PCI, SOX, or other enterprise compliance frameworks.
Certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Red Hat OpenShift certification, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Azure, or AWS certifications.
The expected Total Compensation for this role is $112,000 - $158,000 + Annual Bonus. Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.
Job Benefits
Ski/Mountain Perks! Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family AND free ski lessons

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