vRA Senior Consultant - Opportunity for Working Remotely

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The VMware Professional Services Organization is committed to the success of the customer and its digital strategy. The PSO streamlines the journey for customers to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and employees. In this opportunity, you will play the role of an advanced level technology specialist and subject matter expert, providing customer guidance by facilitating technical workshops, creating of low-level designs and implementing use cases into high-quality solutions. In addition to customer-facing responsibilities, you would also provide technical input to other business units, pre-sales and drive best practices in the form of document creation. Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? You will be expected to effectively work as part of a wider project team or independently act as technical lead on VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) / VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator (formerly vRealize Orchestrator) engagements, including other products from the VMware Aria Suite (formerly vRealize Suite). In collaboration with other team members, you should be able to build a scalable and efficient model for Automation. Take ownership and accountability for individual deliverables. Proactively define project requirements/issues/constraints/risks and address them with PMs. You should be able to effectively collaborate within different product workstreams within the team, with the Center of Excellence (COE) and with the Business Units, identify current gaps, and find a way to bridge them. You should be able to mentor other team members and provide them with technical and consultative guidance as needed. The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis? You will perform design workshops, assessment of customer’s existing environment, and create low-level & high-level design documents based on VMware templates. Review and validate your and other team members' documents Drive customer-facing and internal project calls along with project managers and provides technical guidance Manage customer and internal escalations, collaborate with support and engineering teams as needed You will assist Customers in Backlog items creation, refinement, and iterations planning. You will advise Customers on new processes for delivery (e.g. Moving from Waterfall to Lean/Scrum, Defining more modern ways of documentation…) Based on your knowledge of programming concepts, you will advise Customers on the structure required to deliver their automation use-cases. A few examples: Defining /Setting up Coding Architecture structure to support Service creation Translating functional requirements in business logic and libraries Making code abstract and re-usable You will offer guidance to Customers on how to apply Source Control Management (Git) concepts and tooling in their organization. Examples: Defining Branching model and Approval Mechanism Building Release pipeline Setting up Development tooling to work in collaboration You will offer guidance to Customers on how to apply Configuration Management concepts and tooling (SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet of Chef,…) in their organization. Examples: Helping build script to enforce defined configuration Explaining tool-specific best-practices and align those with the VMware tooling Helping in migration from one tool to another You will be helping/advising/building cloud services for Customers using APIs for third-party products. Examples of activities: Building a new library to interact with third-party tool Assisting customer with leveraging VMware APIs Advising on best practices leveraging APIs vs leveraging Plug-ins You will be supporting Customers in setting-up/further adopting CI/CD processes. Advising on different kind of testing possibilities for automation Building a CI/CD pipeline and integrate with the tooling the customer has, the Cloud service are often in the middle and dictate the approach Educating the customer on CI/CD process to help improve their DevOps ways of working and improve stability and time to market. What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like? We are a team of adaptive, self-starting, and mission-driven individuals with a passion for doing our best work and bringing our best selves. We are committed to building and establishing a team culture that is rooted in collaboration, growth and a sincere commitment to the well-being of our team and its members. We make sure to invest time to check in on one another, have fun and support each other through the high-paced growth of meeting our vision. The hiring manager for this role is Anais Boniface, Manager NEMEA Professional Services. Her 10 years expertise has been built from the field as a Project Manager on a multitude of engagements across diverse industries. Anais believes that continuous learning is essential to a fulfilling job and encourages her team to actively share and acquire new knowledge, looking at every situation as a learning opportunity. Where is this role located? The location of this role is flexible. Work will be done from home, customer site and sometimes in VMware office. VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law. Category : Services and Consulting Subcategory: Solutions Architect Experience: Manager and Professional Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-11-28 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.