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