Multi-cloud Architect

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**Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**

As a** Multi-Cloud Architect,** you will use your knowledge and experience to help our customers design highly scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that will enable them to achieve their desired business outcomes. As a trusted customer advocate, you will guide organizations through each phase of their cloud journey ensuring they employ the latest best practices with our multi-cloud solutions as well as strategies for migrating workloads at scale. You will partner with a broad range of customers including fortune 500 through to born in the cloud startups.

**Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?**
- Fluency in English is a must. Another language is a plus.
- Within 90 days, you will become competent in our VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS) platform, and the tools that are used to manage.
- You will also develop a basic understanding of our other cloud offerings; Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Azure VMware Solution (AVS), VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) and VMware on Dell EMC (VMC on Dell EMC).
- After 90 days, you will be assigned to accounts and work directly with the Customer Success Manager (CSM) delivering technical guidance and knowledge to our multi-cloud customers.

**The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?**

A typical "day in the life" of a Multi-Cloud Architect on your team involves:

- Work directly with customers and cross functional teams to achieve business outcomes using VMware’s Multi-Cloud services
- Partner with presales teams to ensure our proposed solutions will meet or exceed customer needs while aligning to validated reference architectures
- Assist in the ongoing development of reference architectures that can be adapted to meet the needs of our customers’ unique environment
- Advise customers on workload migrations strategies including the optimal migration tool and methodology considering workload profiles and underlying network infrastructure
- Advise customers on cloud security strategies and best practices to harden against penetration and data breaches
- Validate architectures to ensure they are highly available by meeting or exceeding disaster recovery RPO and RTO requirements
- Deliver on-site and remote workshops, create and publish customer facing reference content based on agreed architectures, migration strategy, resiliency and security plans
- Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to drive awareness and prioritization of customer feature requests and service adoption blockers and effectively communicate status with the customer and account team

**What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?**

The Hiring Manager for this role is **Don Zajic**, Director leading the Worldwide Multi-Cloud Architect team who looks after the team from Northern Virginia with diverse technical and leadership roles. He has been with VMware Inc for a little over 8.5 years now. He believes that leadership is not defined by title and encourages his team members to be leaders and live the values they all bring to the team while being creative to solve problems.

The team is distributed and works from different parts of the Globe. There are 5 staff in APJ, 6 in EMEA and 7 in AMER.

**Where is this role located?**

Remote: This role is fully remote, allowing you the flexibility to work from the location you feel most productive and comfortable. You will be expected to live within 0-4 time zones of the primary location.

**What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?**
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
- Generous Time Off Programs
- 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
- Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
- Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
- Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes

**More information you may want to know**
- Type of Employment: Regular
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