Cloud Engineer

VMware; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

VMware in Costa Mesa seeks a Cloud Engineer with 4+ years in technology to own outcomes and drive impactful engineering work. The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and hands-on execution, including Python rewrites and cloud telemetry work with Prometheus, Datadog, and AWS.

The position offers $115,000-$152,000 annually, mentorship, benefits, and flexible temporary hours that respect your life in CA. Candidates with a Costa Mesa network or the drive to build one are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Communication discipline to over-share early and trim later.
• Hands-on leadership with stakeholder management as a close second.
• 4+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• Costa Mesa network, or the hustle to build one from scratch.
• Self-direction that survives a quiet Slack channel.
• Fluency across Leadership and AWS, with strong opinions on both.

Responsibilities

• Spike a Prometheus proof of concept fast when VMware needs a yes-or-no answer.
• Apply Datadog and Project Management to solve growth-minded engineering challenges.
• Ship the Python mission-driven rewrite that pays down years of VMware technical debt.
• Carry a heads-down-and-happy Leadership feature through code freeze without breaking VMware stability.
• Map data flow across VMware's RabbitMQ services and spot the leaks.
• Guard the Datadog codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Mgmt

Self-direction

AWS fluency

Tools

Prometheus

Datadog

Python

RabbitMQ

AWS

Job description

We're after a Cloud Engineer whose idea of a good day is an agile pull request that closed three tickets and opened zero. If you have 4 years in technology, this temporary job offers $115,000 - $152,000 plus the room to lead and grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Spike a Prometheus proof of concept fast when VMware needs a yes-or-no answer
• Apply Datadog and Project Management to solve growth-minded engineering challenges
• Ship the Python mission-driven rewrite that pays down years of VMware technical debt
• Carry a heads-down-and-happy Leadership feature through code freeze without breaking VMware stability
• Map data flow across VMware's RabbitMQ services and spot the leaks
• Guard the Datadog codebase quality through reviews that teach as much as they catch

What You'll Bring

• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later
• Hands-on command of Leadership, with Stakeholder Management as a close second
• 4+ years owning outcomes, not just completing tasks
• A Costa Mesa network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
• Self-direction that survives a quiet Slack channel
• Fluency across Leadership and AWS, with strong opinions on both

At VMware, a boldly-pragmatic Costa Mesa-based studio, the whole mission boils down to making AWS feel effortless for everyone downstream. We look out for one another, and burnout is treated as a problem to solve, not a badge to wear.

The whole offer in one line: $115,000 - $152,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexible temporary hours that respect the life you have in CA.

We stamped it current today; the temporary opening is genuinely accepting candidates.