Software Engineer - VMware Administrator - DevOps - Jenkins

Responsibilities

Build Infrastructure Operations

• Maintain and operate Jenkins infrastructure and build agents.
• Troubleshoot and resolve build failures, agent issues, and pipeline interruptions.
• Ensure build infrastructure remains secure, patched, and up to date.

VMware Infrastructure Administration

• Manage VMware vCenter environments supporting engineering infrastructure.
• Administer ESX hosts and clusters used for build and test systems.
• Provision and maintain virtualized environments for engineering teams.

Automation and Infrastructure Scripting

• Develop infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks across build and test environments.
• Improve infrastructure provisioning and consistency across environments.

Release Engineering Support

• Execute release build workflows and support RPM packaging processes.
• Support release qualification builds and artifact management.
• Coordinate release readiness and update distribution systems.

Engineering Infrastructure Support

• Support engineering teams by provisioning build environments and automation.
• Assist with debugging build issues and infrastructure interruptions.
• Maintain documentation and operational runbooks in Confluence.

Continuous Improvement

• Improve reliability and performance of build and test systems.
• Optimize build execution time and infrastructure efficiency.
• Evaluate tooling such as GitHub Actions runners and container-based build environments.

AI-Assisted Workflow Efficiency

• Use AI-assisted tooling where appropriate to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, and infrastructure automation while validating outputs for accuracy and operational reliability.

Requirements

• Experience administering VMware environments, including vCenter and ESX hosts.
• 2–4 years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, administration, or build engineering.
• Hands-on experience managing Jenkins infrastructure or build systems using Groovy.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience.
• Experience creating infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, or Packer.
• Experience troubleshooting build failures and infrastructure reliability issues.
• Experience supporting engineering teams through internal infrastructure services.
• Experience automating repetitive operational tasks.
• At least 2 years administering Linux infrastructure.
• At least 2 years managing Jenkins or build automation systems.
• At least 2 years working with VMware infrastructure.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience supporting build and release infrastructure for software engineering teams.
• Familiarity with RPM packaging or artifact management workflows.
• Experience operating large Jenkins environments with multiple build agents.
• Exposure to GitHub Actions, runners, or modern CI systems.
• Experience working with VMware clusters supporting development infrastructure.
• Experience supporting build infrastructure used by large distributed engineering teams.
• Experience improving build reliability and execution performance.
• Experience managing virtualized infrastructure at scale, including 100+ hosts or VMs.
• Experience migrating build systems toward containerized runners or Kubernetes.