The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
At VMwareProfessional ServicesWorldwideCenter of Engineeringwedevelop integrations of both VMware products and 3rd party products to provide complete solutions and brings additional capabilities to existing products and services. Our solutions often become the backbone of global enterprise private and public clouds. We are builders of the future.
What is primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?
You will be designing and buildingbackend solutions most of which are based on TypeScript and/or object-oriented JavaScript. Those are to be used in large-scale data centers (think millions of virtual machines). For Linux OS-level configuration, you will be using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell. With infrastructure as code principles you will be engineering CI/CD pipelines, automated workflows, and services such as load balancer as a service, database as a service, …anything as a service.
We hire people from various development backgrounds: Java, .NET, Python, NodeJS.It isnot the language but the seniority what matters to us.
You will act as a consultant to the customer by understanding and fulfilling their requirements, while communicating clearly (in English) with architects, developers, DevOps, quality engineers project managers, and technical writers. Your solutions should be following best practices, be well tested and documented.
You are expected to be among the strongest voices on technical topics on pre-sales calls and technical discussions with the customer. You will have the opportunity to create and present low level-designs that might involve event-driven architectures;message brokers;micro and nano-services. Being the leading example in your team, your role will also involve as well taking part in technical interviews and mentoring senior developers.
Your work will have a wide and lasting impact in the company.
What Other Skills Give Me an Advantage?
Understanding of virtual IT production data center
Mutable/Immutable Infrastructure as Code
Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP
Experience with Kubernetes
Understanding in VMware products such as vSphere, NSX-T
Business-level English is a must. second language (German, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian) is a plus.
TypeScript/NodeJS backend experience
What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
We have teams that work for EMEA, Americas, and Asia Pacific/Japan. Each geography is having an engineering manager with over 10 years of experience on average in leadership. Prior to joining CoE our managers have worked in other R&D units of VMware or as leaders of world class IT companies.
Each team is of 10 developers having a team lead reporting to a manager. Our management values honesty, creativity, and persistence.
Some Open Source Works
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vmware-pscoe.vrealize-developer-tools - a Java/JavaScript/TypeScript toolchain
https://github.com/sapcc/networking-nsx-t- the Python project
https://github.com/sapcc/nsx-t-exporter- the Go project
VMware Products References
https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html - vSphere
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-NSX-T-Data-Center/index.html - NSX-T
https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation.html- vRealize Automation
https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-director.html- VMware Cloud Director
What are the benefits and perks of working for VMware?
- Attractive compensation package - competitive salary, flexible bonus scheme, company sponsored mobile phone plan and additional long term incentives
- Individual career path - management and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, teams of world-wide IT professionals
- Healthy work environment - company sponsored medical program, food and beverage program, sport activities, open communication
- Work-life balance –25 days paid vacation, regular team buildings and celebrations
As part of the VMware global standards for integrity you will be required to go through a pre-employment screening process before you join
All job applications will be treated with strict confidentiality
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.
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