Senior Virtualization Engineer

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Position Overview:

Our rapidly evolving IT department is seeking a Senior Virtualization Engineer with expertise in automation and large-scale environments. The ideal candidate will lead projects, manage complex workloads, and proactively implement best practices. Strong time management and a history of setting and meeting results-oriented goals are essential.

Our Impact:

• We deliver secure, stable, and reliable infrastructure for thousands of systems, supporting a wide range of applications

• We work proactively to minimize service disruptions in a dynamic environment, prioritizing resiliency and rapid recovery for business operations and services

• We modernize and transform IT with Automation and Process Engineering

Your Impact:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance for a team of engineers who work to proactively maintain platform stability and security through best practices and automation

• Drive modernization initiatives and influence technology adoption

• Collaborate with IT leadership to ensure transparent communication, risk mitigation, and accountability

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Senior Virtualization Engineer in large organizations

• 5+ years of PowerShell experience (Ansible\Python a plus)

• Proven accountability for performance and continuous improvement

• Strong communicator, able to communicate effectively with management and business partners

• Forward-thinking, with the ability to anticipate future technology trends

• Skilled at recognizing opportunities to streamline and automate everyday tasks

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Exceptional communication skills

• Deep subject matter expertise with a commitment to driving strategic objectives, best practices, and automation

• Effective mentor and team leader with the ability to influence peers and business partners

• Drives modernization and strategic improvements of infrastructure platforms

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

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A safe and secure environment is critical to Freddie Mac’s business. This includes employee commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk. Employees exercise this responsibility by executing against policies and procedures and adhering to privacy & security obligations as required via training programs.

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Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $122,000 - $184,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.