VMware Cloud Engineer

Join a highly skilled Infrastructure Engineering team developing a hybrid-first, enterprise-grade platform that unifies Enterprise Data Warehousing, AI, and analytics within a scalable Lakehouse architecture. Leverage your deep expertise in VMware and KVM virtualization to design, develop, and maintain on-premises infrastructure supporting complex enterprise workloads. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex infrastructure challenges and help shape a scalable, modular platform with flexible hybrid deployment capabilities.

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 5 months

Location: Remote from U.S.

Compensation: Starting at $67 per hour (W2) plus benefits

What You'll Be Doing

• Work within a team of skilled engineers to perform software engineering duties including problem analysis, code review, design, development, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and support
• Conduct end-to-end testing to validate functionality, stability, and integration across the platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve test strategies and processes
• Detect early signals of at-risk features and applications within the platform
• Work with the DevOps team to build and develop test tools and automation
• Perform root cause analysis of customer-reported issues
• Contribute to product documentation and manuals

Infrastructure & Virtualization

• Design, implement, and maintain the on-premises platform infrastructure
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security throughout the virtualized infrastructure
• Drive virtualization best practices across customer enterprise environments
• Optimize network hardware and software to enable virtualization integration

Collaboration & Communication

• Coordinate cross-functional processes to deliver on customer needs
• Collaborate closely with teams outside of infrastructure engineering to address new features and applications

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with a BS, 5+ with an MS, or 2+ with a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Expert knowledge of virtualization technology, including hypervisors and network virtualization
• Expert knowledge of KVM and Harvester
• Expert knowledge of vSphere, vSAN, vMotion, vCenter, and/or vRA
• Expert knowledge of VMware deployment best practices in enterprise environments
• Familiarity with VMware alternatives such as KVM/Nutanix and RedHat/OpenShift
• Experience automating VMware environments using PowerCLI, Python, or Go
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform to deploy VMware components
• Experience debugging issues within vSphere clusters, including tools such as pktcap-uw, esxtop, and esxcli
• Knowledge of L2 and L3 network protocols
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or JavaScript
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional certification

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Broad understanding of technology and systems with the ability to investigate and solve complex problems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor reporting and updates for varied audiences, including executives, customers, and team members
• Excellent analytical and judgment skills, drawing on factual and qualitative information from multiple sources
• A collaborative mindset and openness to learning new technologies and approaches
• A consistent track record of delivering commitments on time and with high quality
• Intellectual curiosity, a habit of asking questions, and a drive to continuously learn and improve