Consulting Architect (m/f/d)

Architect Position

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart. The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Architect to join our Professional Services team in EMEA. The Architect will work in the Services organization to help clients establish architectural vision and direction. He or she will help clients design, deploy, and migrate complex applications as well as work with software developers, consultants, and engineers to create scalable and repeatable solutions for partners.

About the Team The Nutanix Professional Services team delivers a strong influence on the success of each Nutanix implementation by its customers. The Services function ensures success by engaging with customers in the pre-sales and post-sales stages by assisting in their software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy and architecture. Besides helping customers implement Nutanix products successfully, the Professional Services team, working with our partners, ensures customer success in fully implementing their virtualized and software-defined data centers. The Nutanix Professional Services Consulting function includes assessment, design, implementation, integration, and automation services as well as project management.

Your Role You are a virtualization technology specialist, passionate about cloud automation. You have competencies in infrastructure and network virtualization, a good understanding of business-critical and cloud-native applications, and data center operations.

• Conduct design workshops with prospects / customers wherein you not only derive the Kubernetes related needs but also demonstrate the benefits and capabilities of the NKP, helping potential customers understand how it can meet their specific needs.
• Implement NKP as per services offered. Map the customer needs to NKP and configure the features and capabilities of the NKP while also supporting partner organizations in their cloud native journey.
• You will take ownership of business outcomes of virtualization & automation projects through requirements capture and technical governance.
• You will lead client virtualization & automation projects
• You will craft detailed design documents and perform hands-on implementation work.
• You will work with our project managers on the project budget and all aspects of efficient delivery.
• You will provide technical input and review our projects in a pre-sales stage.
• Work closely with Product, Marketing, and Engineering teams to stay informed on product updates, market trends, and customer feedback, enabling you to effectively promote the NKP.
• Collaborate with various Nutanix teams to showcase and implement the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) to potential clients.
• You actively drive practice activities such as the development of standard methodologies, intellectual property capture and creation, quality assurance, and peer reviews.
• You maintain current knowledge of the entire Nutanix product stack.

What You Will Bring

• Experience to architect complex data center solutions with multi-site cloud architectures from the ground up.
• Utilize your expertise in Kubernetes and other cloud technologies to demonstrate why Nutanix is the platform of choice for container-based workloads.
• Familiarity with CNCF technologies ~ surround Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Experience implementing and managing microservices platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes (e.g. Rancher, Openshift, etc.).
• Excellent understanding of networking and storage concepts as applicable to designing Kubernetes clusters.
• Excellent communication and writing skills and can develop advanced architectural solutions design documentation
• Possesses influencing and negotiating skills and is seen as a technical authority by customers and peers
• At least 8 years of experience in designing and implementing data center infrastructure virtualization projects with regards to compute, network, and storage.
• Industry Certifications: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) and/or CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) would be very desirable. Specific knowledge of Kubernetes tools/products such Helm for application packaging and Flux CD for cluster configuration/automation would also be desirable.
• Experience with Python and PowerShell
• Experience with APIs
• Experience with VMware vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator is highly desirable.
• A Nutanix NCP/NCS or VMware VCAP would be highly regarded.
• Industry Certifications for Datacenter and Networking (e.g. LPIC, MSCA, CCNA, and equivalent)
• Good background Linux systems administration
• Professional German and English language skills required

Work Arrangement Remote: This position is primarily remote. There is no specific in-office requirement, however, there may be circumstances where you may be required to come into a local office for a specific purpose, and/or to travel to other locations based on business needs.