Fidelity TalentSource is your destination for discovering your next temporary role at Fidelity Investments. We are currently sourcing for a Virtualization Performance Engineer in Merrimack, NH and Westlake, TX!
The Role
We are seeking a skilled and analytical Virtualization Performance Engineer to lead comparative performance evaluations across virtualization platforms including Docker, KVM, and VMware. The ideal candidate will design and execute benchmarking strategies to assess compute, IO, and system-level performance, and provide actionable insights to optimize virtualization deployments.
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
Company Overview
Fidelity TalentSource, formerly Veritude, is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s diverse and inclusive workplace while expanding your skills and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource.
For information about working at Fidelity TalentSource, visit FTSJobs.com.
Fidelity TalentSource will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments in order to complete the application or interview process. Please email us at HR@ftsjobs.com if you would like to request an accommodation.
Information about Fidelity Investments
At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and championing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences.
Fidelity Investments and Fidelity TalentSource are equal opportunity employers.
The Role
We are seeking a skilled and analytical Virtualization Performance Engineer to lead comparative performance evaluations across virtualization platforms including Docker, KVM, and VMware. The ideal candidate will design and execute benchmarking strategies to assess compute, IO, and system-level performance, and provide actionable insights to optimize virtualization deployments.
- Creating scalable solutions and automation to monitor the health and establish signals to drive understanding of our performance environment.
- Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client/partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team.
- Design and execute performance benchmarking plans for Docker, KVM, and VMware environments.
- Conduct memory, disk I/O, and CPU benchmarking using tools like STREAM (Triad, Scale), DBench, aobench, and asmFish.
- Analyze system-level performance using tools like stress-ng, phpbench, and Phoronix Test Suite.
- Develop automated performance monitoring dashboards using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or ELK Stack.
- Simulate user workloads and thin client interactions to validate scalability and network impact.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to validate virtualization configurations.
- Document performance baselines, test results, and optimization recommendations.
- Stay current with virtualization trends and emerging technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Brings 3–5 years of experience in virtualization technologies and performance testing.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, KVM/QEMU, and VMware Workstation.
- Proficiency in benchmarking tools (e.g., Phoronix Test Suite, STREAM, DBench).
- Experience in desktop app profiling, remote desktop protocols, and network analysis.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in interpreting system logs, metrics, and traces.
- Familiarity with Linux systems and kernel-level virtualization concepts.
- Experience with container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of VirtIO, QEMU internals, and hypervisor architectures.
- Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and PerfMon.
- Familiarity with tools like iperf, Wireshark, tcpdump, and netstat.
- Knowledge of thin client environments and hosted virtual desktops (HVD).
- Brings holistic and customer-centric perspectives during new development or re-architecture of products spanning across organizations.
- Develops metrics reports such as stress test reports that improve the efficiency of development and operations teams.
- Drives adoption of industry and Fidelity SRE practices across diverse applications and platforms.
- Diagnoses high-severity incidents in Performance before they occur anywhere else
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
Company Overview
Fidelity TalentSource, formerly Veritude, is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s diverse and inclusive workplace while expanding your skills and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource.
For information about working at Fidelity TalentSource, visit FTSJobs.com.
Fidelity TalentSource will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments in order to complete the application or interview process. Please email us at HR@ftsjobs.com if you would like to request an accommodation.
Information about Fidelity Investments
At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and championing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences.
Fidelity Investments and Fidelity TalentSource are equal opportunity employers.