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Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

You share a passion for crafting software that has a significant impact on the world and the future of cloud computing. You love solving problems and learning new things and are looking for a company that helps enable those ideas. Technologies come and go, but that excites you because of the endless possibilities it creates. You are looking for an opportunity to work for a company whose software is utilized by every Fortune 500 company and significantly impacts every industry. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers’ business objectives.

Here at VMware, we’re on a mission to help our half a million enterprise customers develop and implement a hybrid cloud strategy that protects their existing investments and leverages the public cloud. As part of this transition, VMware internally is re-inventing itself and transitioning to SaaS.

The VMware Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) is focused on enabling a multi-cloud, multi-device world where seamless delivery of cloud services to end customers across a global network of homogeneous clouds and heterogeneous endpoints is a reality. With VMC on AWS we have delivered, SDDC to the cloud, now we want to deliver innovative cloud service to on-premises infrastructure that leverages our on-premises footprint.

In the heart of that effort is Project Arctic. It enables customers to run their virtual machines and containers on their hardware, with cloud experience. Arctic simplifies hybrid cloud by making customers' vSphere infrastructure hybrid cloud-ready, making it easy for customers to move workloads between their vSphere infrastructure and VMC on AWS or other VCPP partners.

We need someone to join our team and help us design, develop, deliver, and maintain Project Arctic.

As you join VMware, you will help grow a company that makes meaningful and significant technology solutions and is committed to being a "force for good" in technology. Our mission is to become the trusted foundation for accelerating innovation in an unpredictable world. VMware software is essential for making the applications and devices your family and friends use every day a reality. Which means your work is essential for transforming everywhere.

Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

Within your first 6 months

• You will get familiar with the relevant VMware product/services.
• You will get to know the technologies and processed being used by the team.
• You will start contributing to the development of the cloud services by executing tasks.
• You will become part of the service monitoring and supportability activities.

After 6 months+

• As a member of the team, you will be expected to work with and contribute to its Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, and all your deliverables must align with the group’s development and deployment standards.
• Establishing a relationship of trust and leadership with the team and becoming an influential voice in the success of the team
• Representing the team and product in cross-team design discussions, identifying dependencies and areas of impact
• Be able to take general guidance from product and engineering leadership, identify areas of ambiguity, complexity, and risk, and propose solutions.
• Proactively make proposes and improvements to the benefit of the team.
• You will be responsible for driving the end-to-end architecture of software components in the VMware Cloud.
• You will provide leadership in software development methodologies and be hands-on with POC development, architecture, and design solutions.
• responsible for the entire product life-cycle, including research, design, application and deployment architecture, development, testing (dev owns quality), continuous deployment, and continuous delivery up until production.
• Design and develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain their high level of quality software.
• Monitor resource allocation, consumption, and performance.
• Engage in service software performance analysis and forecasting.

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

• Develop microservices using cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, gRPC, REST APIs, databases, message queues, distributed tracing, monitoring, and more. The services are written in Java and Python.
• Be responsible for delivering code changes to production and monitoring and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in all team scrum ceremonies.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, providing operational support to our platform.
• Work closely with management to understand priorities and advocate for them on the team.

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

This position reports to the manager of vCenter Hybrid Cloud Services team; an experienced software engineer and manager who joined VMware as an engineer in 2007.

The team consists of highly competent senior engineers. We focus on iterative development, both of software and our software development practices.

Where is this role located?

Flexible: The role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from a local VMware office and remotly depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with your future manager. You will be expected to live within a reasonable non-daily commute of the office.

What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?

You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.

• 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

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: REPLACEMENT_STRING03-14

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