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VMware Engineer

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Skills

VMware vSphere
Virtual Machines
VMware ESXi
VMware
Windows PowerShell
PowerCLI
Python
UEFI
SQL
Scripting

Summary

Role: VMware Engineer (Remote Night/After Hours Work)

Location: Remote, U.S. based only

Contract Length: 6+ months, with extension potential

Note: Schedule: Full time (40 hrs/week), with required night/after hours patching windows. Consistent weekly schedule throughout engagement.

About the Role

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

What You Bring

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)

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id: 10238807
Position Id: 8958822
Posted 4 hours ago

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