Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)

About the role

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 — automation, observability, software-defined networking (SDN), and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) storage — 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Benefits

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

Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to reaching career goals.

Unconditional Inclusion: Flexible work arrangements and celebration of individual uniqueness.

Pay

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

Schedule

The role is designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.