Solution Engineer - Federal

Company: VMware, Inc.
Location: Norfolk
Posted on: May 3, 2021

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About VMware MAPBU and VMware Tanzu

Ready to build? So are we. Come join VMware's new exciting Modern Applications Platform Business Unit (MAPBU), made up of products and services under the VMware Tanzu portfolio to help customers build, run and manage their most important applications. We build applications with velocity to run in a cloud-native environment, run open-source Kubernetes with consistency, and manage our customers' entire footprint with confidence to help them achieve their business outcomes.

Solutions Engineer - Federal

The VMware Tanzu Solutions Engineer (SE) plays a critical role in building and sustaining customer relationships while driving the adoption of VMware Tanzu solutions to achieve our revenue goals.

A typical day in this role:

* Present VMware Tanzu vision, strategy and product roadmaps to executives and technical management.

* Work with the sales team to qualify sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision-making process and funding.

* Partner with the sales team to develop and implement account strategies to drive the adoption of VMware Tanzu solutions within strategic accounts.

* Present and advocate for the design and value of the proposed VMware Tanzu solution and business case to customers and prospects.

* Build relationships with the account team, partners and customers in support of the sales opportunity objectives.

* Participate in RFx and drive POCs to meet the customer's success criteria.

* Work collaboratively with Product Management, Technical Marketing and Engineering during the development, launch and continued refinement of VMware Tanzu products.

* Continued learning about VMware Tanzu products through self-study, collaboration with peers, and organizational training.

Required Skills and Experience:

* 5+ years hands-on experience designing or implementing distributed applications in Java or .NET

* 2+ years of experience with container technologies like Kubernetes, Docker or PaaS (e.g. Cloud Foundry)

* Understanding of cloud-native design and agile software delivery principles

* Experience presenting to small and large audiences (Executives, Management & Developers)

* Analytical ability, problem-solving skills and ability to break down complex problems into actionable steps

* Effective in working both independently and in a team setting

* Ability to travel up to 50% regionally

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, related field or equivalent experience

* Top Secret clearance and/or higher levels of clearance.

Desired Skills / Experience:

* Prior technical pre-sales experience

* Experience with one or more development frameworks such as Spring/Java, Ruby/Rails, .NET Core/C#/ASP.NET/WCF, or Go and messaging and database systems (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ, RDBMS, NoSQL)

* Familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins

* Experience with modern software build tools including Maven, Gradle, and Bundler

* Experience in service mesh technologies such as Istio and Envoy

* Certified Kubernetes Application Developer certification from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

This position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and therefore any offer will be contingent upon verification of both of these requirements.

This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsored by VMware.

This position is eligible for TanzuChallenge referral campaign

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