Consulting Architect - Cloud

Consulting Architect - Cloud

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart!

A successful candidate in this role will have career development opportunities including growth in Solutions Design as a Consulting Architect, potential for Consulting Management roles, or Practice Development.

The Opportunity

• Billable Project work 70% of time
• Conduct customer focused workshops to introduce customers to products such as Calm, Files, Flow, and AHV Hypervisor.
• Work with Nutanix customers to understand business goals and translate them into cloud automation and orchestration solutions
• Assist with the design of service catalogs for Self-Service Provisioning (SSP) leveraging the Nutanix Calm Automation and Orchestration platform to provisioning and manage mode 2 applications delivered to both private cloud and public cloud endpoints
  (note: Nutanix Calm experience not required and can be learned on the job)
• Assist with development of detailed blueprint specifications that developers will use to write code and develop the automation components.
• Work collaboratively in a scrum agile team leveraging a variety of DevOps tools (e.g., Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, etc.) as part of the CI/CD pipeline
• Work with software development teams at a hands-on level to design and write code
• Develop and test end-to-end blueprint incorporating all developer code to deliver the desired outcome
• Participate in a limited pre-sales involvement to provide services overlay to the existing sales motion primarily as a SME
• Create toolkits and best practice documents and whitepapers

What You'll Bring

• Ability to travel up to 70%.
• B.S./B.A.
• Fluent in English
• Up to 70% of travel
• A minimum of 5 years of industry experience
• Understanding of virtualization technologies (AHV, VMware, Hyper-V) and infrastructure
• Ability to whiteboard solutions interactively with customers and develop documentation
• Ability to develop and debug software scripting and code in at least one of the following languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Leverage DevOps tools such as GitGitHubBitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Artifactory, etc. to deliver automation and promote a DevOps culture
• Experience designing scalable application microservices using container technologies such as Docker, LXC, KubernetesHelm and related technologies
• Experience with building and running large scale, distributed, highly-available, fault-tolerant, multi-tier applications running on both Windows and Linux or in containers
• Ability to manage multiple projects while maintaining a high level of detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems
• Comfort level using one or more automation tools or orchestration application stacks and frameworks (e.g., Terraforms. Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Experience with designing, automating and managing public cloud computing environments
• Understanding of configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and SALT
• Experience in network technologies (e.g., ingress/egress, proxies, load balancing, overlays, etc.)

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $156,080 and $311,280 /year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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