Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)

About the role

This role is a Hybrid role with an expectation of working 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description

We are looking for a Technical Cloud Architect to serve as a trusted technical advisor to our largest strategic customers. You will bring deep, hands-on expertise in KVM-based virtualization and the surrounding ecosystem to help customers design, validate, and adopt modern private cloud architectures powered with HPE CloudOps Software. This is a customer-facing, high-impact role that sits at the intersection of pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, and product strategy.

What You'll Do

• Engage with large strategic customers on technical and architectural discussions, acting as a subject-matter expert on KVM virtualization and adjacent cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Design and execute proof of concepts (PoCs) that demonstrate solution value and validate architecture decisions in customer environments.
• Author design guides and reference architectures that document best practices for deployment, scaling, and operations.
• Provide structured product feedback to engineering, representing the voice of the customer and helping shape the roadmap.
• Partner with sales, product management, and customer success teams to support the technical sales cycle from discovery through deployment.

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on production experience with KVM-based hypervisor platforms and their surrounding ecosystem, including: Automation (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, or similar IaC tooling), Observability (monitoring, logging, and telemetry stacks for virtualized infrastructure), Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) storage.
• Deep hands-on experience at VMware, Red Hat, or Nutanix, or Hyperscalers.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both engineering and executive audiences.
• Experience running customer-facing proofs of concept and producing technical documentation or design guides.
• Comfort working cross-functionally with engineering, product, and sales teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Relevant certifications (RHCA, VCAP/VCDX, Nutanix NCA/NCX, or equivalent).
• Prior experience in a solutions architect, technical field engineer, or customer-facing pre-sales role.

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development: Programs catering to reaching career goals, including becoming a knowledge expert in your field or applying skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion: Flexible work arrangements and celebrating individual uniqueness.

Job Engineering

Job Level: TCP_05

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

• United States of America: Annual Salary USD 160,000 - 303,000 in Colorado // 152,000 - 349,000 in Texas

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

The estimated job application period closure is August 24 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/ Individual with Disabilities Employer

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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