The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

You will be part of a team managing a VMware private cloud practicing a development first mindset, engaged with cutting edge design, implementation, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and automating day-to-day tasks. Your work will involve solving many challenging engineering problems in a large-scale internal private cloud including observability, monitoring, infrastructure as code, and many other development efforts.

You will collaborate across teams to understand our operational processes and challenges to increase efficiencies and reduce operational burden (toil). These deliverables must provide easy-to-use, secure, consistent, and scalable solutions combining open source and internal frameworks. If you are passionate about solving real-life complex problems and not afraid of learning top of the line technologies, then this is the right opportunity for you.

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

Within the first 2 months: become competent with teams supported infrastructure and responsibilities with respect to standard operations. Within the first 4 months: independently handle troubleshooting incidents. Also provide solutions or inputs for project implementation. Within the first 6 months: you will be expected to contribute to our observability, monitoring, auto remediation, and infrastructure as code. After 6 months+: you will be a subject matter expert in one or more areas of our environment, helping drive the design, implementation, and evangelizing the mindset and adoption.

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

• Contribute to our observability, monitoring, auto remediation, and infrastructure as code
• Deploy and maintain production environments that requires 24/7 availability
• Ensure our services meet stability, performance, and availability requirements.
• Write technical design documents and hold reviews
• Participate in all team scrum meetings and demos
• Participate in on-call duty rotation

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

This position reports to Geremy Gibson, Manager for the Cloud Operations team under VPS (VMware Platform Services) BU within OCTO (Office of the Chief Technology Officer). Geremy has 18 years' experience across the software spectrum including: Lead Quality Assurance Automation Test Engineer, Source Control Management Administrator, and Software Development including being the technical lead for VMware vRealize Operations Manager Deployment and Configuration team. He has been with VMware for 11 years and is passionate about software development, design, and helping our team improve the quality and reliability of our services through code. The Cloud Operations team is distributed across the globe and follows the SRE practice of the software engineering approach to IT operations.

Where is this role located?

Flexible/Remote: The location of this role is flexible within the United States. Work can be done from an office or from a non-VMware building.

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

For US based candidates, the annual pay range (OTE for commissioned roles; Salary for other roles) for this position is: $116,000 - $277,000. The actual offer will be based on the role, location, and individual candidate experience. Bonus, commission, and/or equity may be eligible for this position. VMware offers comprehensive benefits including, but not limited to: medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time. Additional benefits for this position can be found at https://benefits.vmware.com/. Your talent advisor can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

This job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Site Reliability
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2023-05-10

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