Staff Technical Architect - Opportunity for Working Remotely

The Elevator Pitch: Why would you enjoy this new opportunity?  Join us and become a key contributor to cloud evolution at VMware. We are at the epicenter of VMware's SaaS transformation journey and provide a highly compliant production grade set of Kubernetes clusters. We are looking for a talented Staff Technical Architect to join our team whereby you will help build and maintain VMware's next generation cloud API management solution, as part of a passionate, hard-working and culturally diverse team. There are some extremely exciting Cloud Native projects being worked on that are highly strategic to VMware. VMware's globally distributed infrastructure platform is built using a combination of industry-standard open-source solutions and internally developed applications and is backed by the Kubernetes eco-system running on public cloud providers. The platform powers VMware's largest SaaS products in production, including VMware Cloud on AWS. The platform team are responsible for providing infrastructure services and tools to internal teams as self-service systems, so engineering teams can focus on delivering value to customers. What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for? As a Staff Technical Architect on this team, you will be leading VMware's central API Management solution in which all products at VMware will consume. Security, reliability and simplicity is the core objective in providing a centralised set of services consumed by internal VMware engineers and teams. You will be skilled in public cloud, security, api standards and best practices running on cloud native infrastructure using your software development skills to create a critical new service to the company. Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months, you will work toward completing? Build a net new product to achieve all a centralized control plane for VMware's SaaS API Management & Gateways Develop Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions & Operators in Golang Work with Service Mesh technologies (Tanzu Service Mesh/Istio), Content Delivery (Akamai, Cloudfront, Incapsula), Avi Load Balancers and GSLBs Write design proposals, participate in architectural meetings and mentor other contributors. Develop and maintain high quality software that delivers on the team's objectives primarily in typescript, python and terraform and Golang Participate in all team scrum ceremonies Participate in on-call rotation of the new product, providing operational support to our platform 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 Tom O' Rourke. Tom has been at VMware for over 10 years and he is our Director of Engineering for the Cloud Services Platform team. The team is distributed globally and follows dynamic, open culture at work and encourages to learn from each other, teach others and grow along with others being collaborative and courteous. VMwareIreland Category : Engineering and Technology Subcategory: Software Engineering Experience: Business Leadership Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-06-07 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.