Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 349,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Technical Cloud Architect to serve as a trusted advisor to our largest strategic customers. You will design, validate, and deploy modern private cloud architectures powered by HPE CloudOps software, focusing on KVM virtualization, automation, SDN, and HCI storage.

You will engage with customers on architectural decisions, run PoCs, author design guides, and feed the voice of the customer back to engineering while collaborating with sales, product

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with KVM-based hypervisors and related tools.
• Experience delivering customer-facing PoCs and creating design guides.
• Strong ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers and executives.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, product, and sales.
• Experience with automation, SDN and HCI storage.

Responsibilities

• Engage with large strategic customers on technical and architectural discussions.
• Design and execute PoCs that validate architecture decisions in customer environments.
• Author design guides and reference architectures documenting best practices.
• Provide structured product feedback to engineering based on customer input.
• Partner with sales, product management and customer success to support the technical sales cycle.

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

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.

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

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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.

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

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

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.