Technical Cloud Architect; Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure

Position: Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)
## Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)
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Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)
This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
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* Who We Are:

** Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
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* Job Description:

**** 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 Cloud Ops Software This is a customer-facing, high-impact role that sits at the intersection of pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, and product strategy.

You'll spend your time in technical whiteboard sessions, hands-on proof of concepts, and writing the design guidance that shapes how customers deploy at scale — while also being a direct voice back into our engineering organization.
** 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#United States #strongprogramming #python #java #golang #orjavascript
** What We Can Offer You:
**** Health & Wellbeing
** We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and…