VMware vRA Consultant

VMware vRA Consultant - Banking / Financial Services

Contract: 6 months

Rate: £500 per day (Outside IR35)

Location: Remote - with occasional visits to London (Bishopsgate)

Sector: Banking / Financial Services (candidates must pass full bank vetting)

Overview

We're seeking an experienced VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) Consultant to work within an established financial-services environment, supporting ongoing enhancement, remediation, and automation initiatives. The role combines hands-on development, workflow refactoring, and knowledge transfer, helping modernise and stabilise the existing vRA estate.

You'll partner closely with internal engineering teams through pair programming, unit testing, and workflow documentation, ensuring solutions are secure, repeatable, and fully aligned with operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical remediation, refactoring, and workflow optimisation within the existing VMware vRA environment.
• Deliver automation and self-service capabilities for DRaaS failover testing, "morning checks," and other Day-2 operational tasks.
• Collaborate in pair-programming sessions to review and maintain high-quality, efficient code.
• Develop and execute unit tests to ensure code quality, reliability, and compliance with platform standards.
• Document workflows, configurations, and operational runbooks in Confluence.
• Produce and maintain onboarding and training materials, supporting upskilling of existing engineering teams.
• Support and mentor internal staff through knowledge transfer and best-practice guidance.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing automation, reliability, and operational visibility.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a VMware vRA Consultant, DevOps Engineer, or Automation Specialist in enterprise or financial environments.
• Hands-on expertise with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO, and infrastructure automation workflows.
• Strong understanding of unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, NUnit, pytest) and version control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab).
• Demonstrable experience in workflow documentation and producing technical runbooks and Confluence pages.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills with the ability to deliver training and onboarding for engineering teams.
• Familiarity with DRaaS, automation of failover testing, and self-service portal development.

Desirable

• Experience within banking or financial-services environments with exposure to bank vetting and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and agile delivery frameworks.
• Prior experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) or continuous-integration environments.
• Understanding of Zero-Trust and secure-by-design principles for automated infrastructure delivery.

Summary

This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on VMware vRA Consultant with automation and documentation experience to join a large, regulated financial institution. You'll play a key role in enhancing automation, improving reliability, and enabling self-service within a complex vRA environment-while supporting knowledge transfer and operational excellence across the wider engineering team.