Technical Cloud Architect (Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure)

HPE • Fort Collins, CO

2d • $152,000 - $349,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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 Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed