VMWare Engineer

About the role

We have a 5+ month contract for a VMware Engineer. Candidates located near Melville, NY are preferred but fully remote candidates will be accepted provided they have all skills and can work 9AM EST - 5:30PM EST.

Responsibilities

Provide optimum performance of infrastructure and enterprise wide technology through the creation, advancement, and support of the technology, ensuring compatibility of design/components. This may include the operation of capacity software tools, and other software and hardware monitoring tools/technologies.

• Responsible for planning, installation, testing, and maintaining infrastructure throughout organization; aid projects in enterprise system requirements, and test plan development
• Contribute to system architecture planning, and policies and procedures surrounding enterprise - wide technology
• Develop guidelines for system implementation in regards to retaining system security
• Monitor system performance; perform complex problem determination, and resolution for systems at the different enterprise levels
• Conduct impact analysis regarding enterprise - wide technology
• Perform capacity monitoring with various monitoring tools; provide analysis and recommendations; may assist in capacity planning
• Support system integration, software and hardware at enterprise level for optimum performance
• Remain current on new technologies; introduce applicable technology in alignment with goals and for creative solutions
• Guide change with a focus on optimal outcomes

Required qualifications

• Virtual Private Cloud experience
• Packaging, Patching, and Deploying experience
• Ability to work and take direction from other team members
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of related experience
• Knowledge of application architecture; ability to perform job relatively independently
• Ability to report on technical information, while tailoring to the audience
• Excellent analytical and problem - solving skills for moderate problems
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Meet/exceed organizations best practices, expectations, and standards
• Identify and mitigate risk(s)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to guide others in regards to team self-management
• Ability to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of his/her job duties

Skills

• Virtual Private Cloud
• Capacity monitoring and planning (preferred)

Pay & schedule

• Contract duration: 5+ months
• Pay: $45 - 50 per hour
• Work hours: 9am to 6pm EST
• Telecommute / fully remote option available
• No Degree Required