Technical Cloud Architect, Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Ft. Collins, COTX
Salary
$160,000–$303,000 / yr
Posted
25 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $232k
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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $142,437–$208,707 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $232k versus about $176k for comparable roles.

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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a global enterprise technology company providing servers, storage, networking, and hybrid cloud solutions along with advisory and operational services to enterprises worldwide. Industry: Enterprise Technology & Cloud Computing

Hewlett Packard Enterprise currently has 6 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Technical Cloud Architect, Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure

Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure) serves as a trusted technical advisor to large strategic customers, focusing on KVM-based virtualization and its surrounding ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, and product strategy. You will lead technical whiteboard sessions, execute hands-on proofs of concept, and author design guides for modern private cloud architectures powered by HPE CloudOps Software. The position requires deep expertise in KVM-based hypervisor platforms, automation tools like Ansible or Terraform, observability stacks, software-defined networking (SDN), and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) storage. Candidates should possess experience with VMware, Red Hat, Nutanix, or Hyperscalers to help customers design and validate scalable deployments. You will also provide structured product feedback to engineering teams while collaborating cross-functionally with sales and customer success teams to support the technical sales cycle.

What you'll do

  • Act as a technical advisor to strategic customers regarding KVM virtualization and cloud infrastructure.
  • Design and execute proof of concepts to validate architecture decisions in customer environments.
  • Author design guides and reference architectures for deployment, scaling, and operations.
  • Provide structured product feedback to the engineering team to shape the product roadmap.
  • Support the technical sales cycle from discovery through deployment in partnership with internal teams.
  • Lead technical whiteboard sessions to discuss complex cloud infrastructure technologies with customers.

What we're looking for

  • Must have hands-on production experience with KVM-based hypervisor platforms.
  • Must possess expertise in automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
  • Must have experience with observability, software-defined networking (SDN), and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) storage.
  • Requires deep hands-on experience with VMware, Red Hat, Nutanix, or Hyperscalers.
  • Must be able to communicate complex technical concepts to both engineering and executive audiences.
  • Experience running customer-facing proofs of concept and producing technical documentation is required.
  • Preferred experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures.
  • Relevant certifications such as RHCA, VCAP/VCDX, or Nutanix NCA/NCX are preferred.

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