# Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 160,000 - 303,000 in Colorado // 152,000 - 349,000 in Texas
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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.

**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

- 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

**Benefits:**

- Health & Wellbeing: comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing

- Personal & Professional Development: programs catered to helping you reach career goals

- Unconditional Inclusion: celebrating individual uniqueness and valuing varied backgrounds

**Salary:**

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

## Skills

### Required
- KVM-based hypervisor platforms
- automation
- observability
- software-defined networking
- hyperconverged infrastructure storage
- Ansible
- Terraform
- IaC tooling
- monitoring
- logging
- telemetry stacks
- virtualized infrastructure
- SDN
- HCI storage
- VMware
- Red Hat
- Nutanix
- Hyperscalers

### Nice to have
- public cloud platforms
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- hybrid cloud architectures
- RHCA
- VCAP/VCDX
- Nutanix NCA/NCX

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