Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; Fort Collins (CO); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development programs

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP is seeking a Technical Cloud Architect to serve as a trusted technical advisor for our largest strategic customers. You will bring hands‑on expertise in KVM virtualization and the surrounding ecosystem to help design, validate, and adopt modern private cloud architectures powered with HPE CloudOps Software.

This role sits at the intersection of pre‑sales engineering, solutions architecture, and product strategy, with time spent in technical whiteboard

Qualifications

• Hands‑on production experience with KVM-based hypervisor platforms and related ecosystem.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Strong background in observability, monitoring, logging, and telemetry stacks.

Responsibilities

• Engage with large strategic customers on technical and architectural discussions as a subject‑matter expert on KVM virtualization and cloud infra technologies.
• Design and execute PoCs to demonstrate solution value and validate architecture in customer environments.
• Author design guides and reference architectures documenting deployment, scaling, and operations best practices.
• Provide structured product feedback to engineering representing the voice of the customer and shaping the roadmap.
• Partner with sales, product management, and customer success to support the technical sales cycle from discovery to deployment.

Skills

KVM virtualization

Automation IaC

Observability

SDN

HCI storage

VMware

RedHat

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

VMware

Red Hat

Job description

Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure) This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

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.

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 CloudOps 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, RedHat, 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 We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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Job: Engineering Job Level: TCP_05

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 The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

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The estimated job application period closure is October 26 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

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