Remote Solution Architect

Summary

The job is for a VMware Solutions Architect at Rackspace, who will work closely with customers, sales teams, and product development/management groups to design and develop business applications and VMware solutions. The candidate should have extensive experience in solution architecture and a strong understanding of VMware technologies.

Requirements

• Requires 5+ years of solution architecture experience or specialty domain experience with a proven track record
• Strong understanding and experience with VMware SDDC, vSAN, VNX, vSphere, SRM, Tanzu, HCX, vRealize and other VMware technologies
• Strong understanding of architectural frameworks, DevOps concepts for CI/CD, configuration management, orchestration, etc
• Ability to travel approximately 15-50%
• Candidates must have the unrestricted right to work in the US without requiring sponsorship

Responsibilities

• Design futuristic solutions with currently available technology and take responsibility for the quality of the solution
• Work with Rackspace’s sales teams to understand the customers’ business and technical objectives and then design solutions that leverage existing supported VMware technologies
• Where existing solutions do not exist, work with product management and product engineering to help implement new standards and new processes that allows Rackspace to solve for the customer’s needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Hyperscaler VMware offerings such as VMC, GCVE, or AVS is ideal
• Any of the following industry certifications are a plus: VCP, VCAP, or VCDX for DCV or CMA, RHCSA, RHCE, MCSE, MCSA, MCITP, CCNA, CKA, CKAD, OpenStack