Livefire Solutions Architect

**Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**

As a Livefire Solutions Architect within Worldwide Readiness, Assessment, Certification, and Enablement, you will enable and mentor VMware field and partner customer-facing engineers and architects on current and next-generation VMware solutions at the enterprise level. Our customer-facing teams' confidence, technical success, and overall effectiveness will depend on this individual's efforts combined with the larger team.

Livefire was incubated ten years ago as a program to showcase the “art of the possible”. Our Solutions Architects determine ways to solve real business challenges and take that information to our audience. With input received directly from engineering and our stakeholders you will be part of a global, dynamic team that develops and delivers content in a variety of traditional and cutting edge modalities: PowerPoint, video, virtual trainer, and hands-on labs. If you are looking to develop your own skills, maximize the potential of others, and drive VMware solutions in a global role, then the Livefire team might be a great fit for you.

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

Develop and deliver advanced technical content and support our global alumni community within the Multi-Cloud and Automation solution area as follows:

- Within 30 days of joining the team, you will become familiar with Livefire processes and procedures and attend at least one Livefire session. You will also become competent in at least one current module (both lecture and labs) and be expected to deliver that module.
- Within 60 days of joining the team you will become competent in at least four current modules (both lecture and labs) and be expected to deliver those modules.
- After 60 days, you will be expected to fully participate in team discussions related to content: updating or creating as needed, providing feedback from attendees, and voicing your own experience and opinion.
- After 90 days you will be in a position to assist partners and field personnel with their needs outside the classroom: Statement-of-Work reviews, architecture and design assistance, reverse shadowing of customer engagements, and other assistance as needed.
- Within 6 months of joining the team, you will be expected to understand and be able to deliver all modules of one current course
- After one year on the team, you will be expected to fully participate in all team activities, including leading the development of a course, understanding all modules of each course, and supporting our field and partner communities with needs outside the classroom.

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

Assignments:

- Provide in-person and virtual enablement on current and emerging solutions and services offerings for field and partner organizations
- Develop solution labs and toolkits, best practices & architectural references for developing and deploying VMware solutions - building product integrations to aid solution demonstration and selling
- Develop and maintain technical/business expertise on industry directions and trends
- Actively Participate in our Livefire Alumni Community
- Ability to work across time zones, outside of normal working hours on occasion

**Required Skills**:

- Experience with VMware vRealize Automation or vRealize Automation Cloud (VMware Cloud Services)
- Scripting or other programming knowledge e.g. Python, Node.JS, Powershell
- VCP-DCV preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience desired
- Demonstrated ability to capture, develop, and share knowledge with the community
- Minimum of 5 years in a Systems Engineer or Consulting role, with extensive experience in VMware products, solutions & services.
- 2+ years of that experience developing automation and custom integrations between disparate systems using APIs
- Strong interpersonal skills, both written and oral
- Proficiency with the English language

Preferred Skills:

- Ansible, Terraform and other Automation Tools
- DevOps Automation Experience
- Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD Experience)
- Background in curriculum development or technical training helpful
- Hands on experience with public cloud technologies including VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, and Google Compute Platform

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

The hiring manager for this role is **Bal Birdy**, **Sr Manager of Livefire Solutions**, leading the global team of solutions architects from near London UK. Bal has been with VMware for just over 6 years. His leadership style is to set the vision and the guidelines and let his team of experts determine how we get to the destination. He believes in providing opportunities for the team to lead different projects and expects indivi