Job Description

About Us

Ready to build? So are we. Come join VMware's exciting Modern Applications Business Unit (MAPBU) Team, made up of products and services under the Tanzu portfolio to help customers build, run and manage their most important applications. We build applications with velocity to run in a cloud-native environment, run Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry with consistency, and manage our customers' entire footprint with confidence to help them achieve their business outcomes. To learn more about Tanzu watch this video. #TeamTanzu



About You

You are unique: as an exceptional, passionate, customer facing, hands-on Solution Architect you will help customers transform to realize the benefits of modern applications and architectures on the VMware Tanzu portfolio. You will also work closely with the Tanzu engineering and Solution Engineer (SE) teams to transform the way our customers build and run their software. You are a problem solver and the thought of collaborating with a team to help companies transform to meet the challenges of tomorrow excites you.





The Team

At VMware we believe that Kubernetes, and by extension Modern Applications, will transform the next generation of enterprise infrastructure and applications the way Virtualization and Java have in the past. Customers are looking to containers to avoid lock in with public clouds and the industry has aligned around Kubernetes as the orchestration engine

for these containers. The complete Tanzu portfolio consists of products and services that transform how enterprises build and operate modern applications on Kubernetes. The Platform Services team helps customers derive the value of Tanzu technology to deliver the benefits of container application platforms.



What You'll Be Doing:

• Executing on customer engagements both as a member of a team for complex engagements and solo for simpler engagements
• Driving platform adoption by working with application teams to embrace modern practices around developer workflow, application enhancements, build and packaging, application lifecycle, and observability
• Deploying and operationalizing platforms built on Kubernetes by designing for storage integration, container networking, service routing, observability, and platform security
  

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  Promote the adoption of automation techniques and DevOps practices to improve the infrastructure and software life cycle including infrastructure and application uptime, availability, and time-to-market
• Participate in mentoring and knowledge transfer to your customers
• Support a written culture and contribute to our technical content library
• Serve as an effective member of the broader Open Source and Modern Applications ecosystem, contributing to Kubernetes SIG's, Meetups and similar
• Work effectively with a remote and distributed team
  

• 5+ years' experience with design and implementation of distributed systems architectures on private or public cloud infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience designing container-based solutions using Kubernetes
• Familiarity with programming concepts and general SDLC practices
  

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  Robust proficiency in Linux & CLI with 1-2 years of experience in VM infrastructure
• Understanding of the latest cloud trends and best practices, including Cloud-Native, DevOps and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience in a customer-facing capacity, support, or consulting role
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to travel approximately 50%

• Experience presenting to small and large audiences (Executives, Management & Developers)
• Experience with cloud service provider offerings like Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• The ideal candidate will have familiarity with virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V, vSphere, and vCenter.
• It would be useful if you had experience implementing a continuous integration (CI) or continuous development (CD) pipeline
• Ideally you have some experience using logging and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Kibana