Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 349,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Personal & professional development

Unconditional inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks a Technical Cloud Architect to serve as a trusted advisor to our largest strategic customers. You will bring hands-on expertise in KVM-based virtualization, automation, observability, SDN, and HCI storage to design and validate modern private cloud architectures powered by HPE CloudOps.

This is a customer-facing, high-impact role at the intersection of pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, and product strategy.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with KVM-based virtualization and related tooling.
• Proficient in automation and IaC (Ansible, Terraform).
• Strong observability and telemetry for virtualized infra.
• Knowledge of SDN and HCI storage.
• Excellent communication to engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Engage with large strategic customers on technical discussions.
• Design and run PoCs to validate architectures.
• Author design guides and reference architectures.
• Provide structured feedback to engineering to shape the roadmap.
• Collaborate with sales, product management, and customer success.

Skills

KVM virtualization

Automation

Observability

SDN

HCI storage

VMware

Red Hat

Nutanix

Communication

PoCs & design guides

Tools

VMware

Red Hat

Nutanix

Hyperscalers

Ansible

Terraform

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 onfinding 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, 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

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.

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. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

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