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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!\nCandidates 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).\nJob Summary:\nWe are seeking a highly skilled Principal Analyst to join the Infrastructure and Platform Engineering organization. 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frameworks.\nAutomate cloud and hybrid infrastructure provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, and operational workflows.\nBuild and maintain automated secure landing zone patterns that include standardized networking, identity integration, logging, monitoring, policy guardrails, secrets management, and compliance-ready controls.\nDrive GitOps and declarative infrastructure practices to improve consistency, repeatability, and auditability.\nReduce manual operational effort by creating automated runbooks, scripts, and platform workflows.\nDevOps, CI/CD, and Release Enablement\nDesign, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines supporting containerized applications and platform services.\nPartner with application teams to improve deployment consistency, release quality, change controls, and automated testing.\nSupport adoption of DevOps practices, including source control, automated builds, artifact management, and deployment governance.\nCloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, and Reliability\nSupport Nutanix, Kubernetes, and OpenShift platforms across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.\nTroubleshoot complex platform issues across compute, storage, network, DNS, ingress, certificates, identity, and application runtime layers.\nParticipate in incident response, root cause analysis, service restoration, and continuous improvement activities.\nBuild platform observability, alerting, and operational dashboards to improve service health and reliability.\nSecurity, Compliance, and Governance\nImplement platform security controls, including RBAC, network policies, secrets management, image scanning, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration standards.\nDeploy and govern secure landing zones that establish repeatable, policy-aligned foundations for new workloads, environments, and platform services.\nPartner with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure container platforms meet enterprise governance and audit requirements.\nEstablish and maintain platform documentation, standards, reference architectures, and operational procedures.\nTechnical Leadership\nServe as a subject matter expert for Nutanix, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, secure landing zones, automation, and platform engineering practices.\nMentor engineers, influence technical direction, and help establish engineering standards across the platform ecosystem.\nEvaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements that increase automation, reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity.\nJob Requirements:\n7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.\nStrong hands-on expertise with Nutanix platform engineering, administration, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and support of enterprise virtualization environments.\n5+ years of hands-on experience administering, operating, or engineering Kubernetes platforms in production environments.\n3+ years of 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in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with AKS, EKS, GKE, Azure, AWS, or other public cloud services.\nExperience with Nutanix Cloud Platform, Nutanix AHV, Prism Central, Flow networking, or related Nutanix automation and lifecycle management capabilities.\nExperience with Argo CD, Flux, Helm, Kustomize, Operators, or similar Kubernetes ecosystem tools.\nExperience with HashiCorp Vault or enterprise secrets management solutions.\nExperience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, or OpenTelemetry.\nExperience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh, or Linkerd.\nExperience supporting regulated environments such as PCI, SOX, or other enterprise compliance frameworks.\nCertifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Red Hat OpenShift certification, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, Azure, or AWS 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Individual compensation decisions are based on a variety of factors.\nJob Benefits\nSki/Mountain Perks! Free passes for employees, employee discounted lift tickets for friends and family AND free ski lessons \nMORE employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles\n401(k) Retirement Plan \nEmployee Assistance Program\nExcellent training and professional development\nFull Time roles are eligible for the above, plus:\nHealth Insurance; Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance plans (for eligible seasonal employees after working 500 hours)\nFree ski passes for dependents\nCritical Illness and Accident plans\nVail Resorts offers a ‘Hybrid’ work environment where employees living within 50 miles of the Broomfield office work on-site Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and have flexibility to work off-site on Mondays and Fridays. 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