VMware Engineer

We re looking for an experienced VMware Engineer to support a large-scale configuration remediation effort for a major U.S. financial institution. You ll focus on correcting CIS Baseline drift and advanced VM settings across a 20,000+ VM environment. This role is highly technical, automation driven, and requires comfort working during afterhours maintenance windows.

If you enjoy solving complex VMware challenges at scale and building automation that makes environments healthier and more consistent, this is a great fit.

What You ll Do

• Remediate CIS Baseline and advanced VM configuration issues across thousands of VMs
• Execute updates, power cycles, and configuration changes during scheduled patching windows (primarily nights)
• Build automation and scripts (PowerCLI/PowerShell/etc.) to streamline remediation
• Support Secure Boot, UEFI, and certificate related VM updates
• Coordinate with UAT and Production teams to align work with maintenance processes
• Assist with improving observability, alerting, and VM data visibility

• 5+ years of hands-on VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter experience
• Strong scripting skills (PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, etc.)
• Experience with large scale VM configuration changes
• Familiarity with CIS Benchmarks and security hardening
• Ability to work independently during night/after hours windows
• Must be U.S based (onshore) due to security requirements

Nice to Have

• Experience automating certificate renewals (including VCF cert management)
• Observability/monitoring improvements (Aria, VCF logs, Datadog)
• VM placement/anti affinity logic experience (e.g., SQL primary/secondary nodes)