VMware Looking for Senior Solution Architect – Cloud , Mumbai at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

Business Summary:
VMware streamlines the journey for organizations to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and empower employees to do their best work. All through our solutions across compute, cloud, networking and security, App Modernization and digital workspace.

Since our founding in 1998, our employees and ecosystem of 75,000 partners have been behind the technology innovations transforming entire industries—from banking, healthcare, government to retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, and transportation.

Our team of 30,000+ people working in 50+ locations worldwide are committed to building a community where great people want to work, by living our values of passion, innovation, execution, teamwork, active learning and giving back. If you are ready to accelerate and innovate, join us as we challenge constraints and problem solve for tomorrow today. If you share these goals and would like to become part of this global team we’d love to hear from you.

Senior Enterprise Architect – Cloud

Are you excited to work with the team that enables Cloud Transformation and journeys to cloud for digital enterprises using VMware multi cloud and SaaS technologies?

Solutions Engineering team in VMware is looking for an Native Cloud architects who can work with our customers who are transforming applications across multi cloud to build new revenue stream & enhance customer experiences.

Candidate will have customer facing skills to represent VMware well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior tech executives ( CTO, CDO, App Owners), and deep technical background to easily interact and give guidance to app/cloud architects. Should demonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

They come from a deeply technical background and have extensive experience with complex, legacy IT environments including applications, middleware, compute, storage networks, security and operations as well as have a solid understand of cloud services, cloud native architectures and application delivery models, which enables them to establish technical credibility with key decision makers.

Cloud Architects engage with a strategic set of customers that are at a critical decision point on their cloud journeys, providing prescriptive guidance & suggest architectures in addressing customer concerns and helping customers make decisions, enabling use of the VMware multi cloud technologies.

Roles & Responsibilities

Your broad responsibilities will include:
Owning customer engagement around Modern Cloud architecture for transformational projects on prem & across clouds.

Analysing customers infrastructure & application landscape, advising landing zones, driving migration projects.

Developing a deep expertise in VMware Multi cloud technologies as well as know-how around how cloud architectures are constructed irrespective of native public clouds or on Premise, Edge.

An ideal candidate will have deep expertise with at least one hyper scalers technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) so that S/he drive cloud architectures across on prem, hyper scalers using VMware multi cloud technologies in integration with cloud native technologies. Should be able to figure out trade-offs, be hands-on, and can roll up their sleeves should need be to do Proof of Concepts and demonstrate technologies. Candidate should be good at identifying repeatable pattern and best practices, picking up new technologies.

Collaborate with VMware Account teams (Presales, Sales Executives), Product specialists (Tanzu, vRealize Management, Network, Security); Professional Services teams to drive innovative solutions.

Present to Technical communities and customer C-Suite on Architecture Patterns, Best practices, Case Studies.

The selected candidate will work with customers to map/model business requirements to technology & performance requirement; Design cloud Architectures, current state – To be architecture for scale, availability, agility, cost and security.

Design for required scaling, high availability goals, availability zones while minimizing the cost & meeting security requirements; design Disaster Recovery solutions for required RTO/RPO.

Design for end to end multi cloud and information security, Networking technologies, Load balancing, Advanced cloud services

Advise on building DevOps pipelines & process; advise on monitoring Infrastructure & Applications using technologies such as VMware vROPs, ELK Stack, Tanzu Observability etc;

Required Skill & Qualifications

5+ years of Cloud Architecting experience of large-scale systems with minimum 2+ years of experience with at least one cloud platform like VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP

Should have designed the landing zones for customer and has worked on cloud native architecture with services like – ec2, elastic load balancer, s3, azure vms, traffic manager, ds, azure sql, Kubernetes and monitoring services.

Should have designed and implemented solution to cater to SLA requirements – muti AZ/ multi site architecture.(RTO/RPO objectives)

Proven experience on Software defined data center, containers technologies in the industry (Docker, Kubernetes, Calico etc), and DevOps practices, CI/CD tools

Programming/Scripting experience with Yaml, Python, Shell; Building templates (cloud formation), Terraform, Saltstack, Ansible, Jenkins, GitOps etc..

Understanding of Load Balancers, Software defined Network (subnets, NATs, Gateways), CDN, HTTP1/2, Storage systems, Security (Authentication/Authorization, SSL); Firewall (L4-7), CDN etc,,

Understanding of Infrastructure & Application monitoring

Exposure to Site Reliability Engineering techniques

Graduate with Engineering background – B.E/B.tech

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Category : Sales

Subcategory: Solutions Architect

Experience: Manager and Professional

Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time

Posted Date: 2022-02-09

VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.