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

Enterprises are running mission-critical software in more places than ever before - in their datacentre, hybrid cloud, public cloud, and at the edge. In order to catalyze Enterprise transformation through software, VMware envisions a world where Kubernetes is as available as a utility — like electricity — customers need to deploy a consistent Kubernetes grid across all their operational environments. VMware Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) is a centralized management hub with a robust policy engine that simplifies multi-cloud and fleet Kubernetes management. TMC enables Platform operators to reduce complexity through centralized management, increase consistency through configuration management, and offer a better developer experience with self-service tools.

The VMware Tanzu team is looking for engineers to grow the Tanzu Managed Kubernetes team, which is building support for managing EKS, AKS, and GKE clusters directly in the TMC control plane.

What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?

We are looking for someone with a strong technical vision, who can collaborate with product management and engineering teams to build out our SaaS offering which solves lifecycle management challenges across a fleet of Kubernetes clusters.

You will be working with the team to design and implement new features to provide them with additional robust tools and features to create and manage their K8s clusters. You will also work on services and tools that enable other teams to accelerate their development and allow them to easily scale their services.

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

As a member of the team, your role will primarily focus on leading designs and building robust features, helping to raise the technical quality bar on the team, and collaborating with team members to build a strong culture of operational excellence.

Success looks like:

• Independently designing and making significant contributions to key features on the TMC roadmap

• Having a strong understanding and working knowledge of Kubernetes Clusters, Kubernetes Image management, Cluster lifecycle management

• Be an advocate for team processes and quality standards, and mentor more junior team members in reaching those bars

• Critically analyze areas of risk and challenges in the product and team, and propose improvements

• Proactively works to facilitate team collaboration, and driving the team to sprint deliveries

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

As part of this team:

• Most of your time will be developing microservices using cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, gRPC, REST APIs, databases, Message queues, distributed tracing, monitoring and more. All of our services are written in Go.

• You will write automated tests in Go to validate and secure critical customer functionality

• You will be responsible for delivering your code changes to production, and monitoring/maintaining our CI/CD pipelines.

• You will take on-call responsibilities where you will triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate production issues.

• Work directly with Technical Project Managers and Product Managers to better understand requirements, and define the scope of work

• Collaborate with partner teams, to identify dependencies, and align on delivering cross-team initiatives

Where is this role located?

Remote: This role is fully remote and can be done anywhere in North America.

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 Cass Outlaw, Engineering Manager. His expertise includes delivering a wide range of products and services that serve business critical functions.

Cass’ leadership style is heavily focused on building strong collaborative teams, based on interpersonal relationships. Trust is essential, and high ownership and self-drive are valued. He will support you in setting you up for success, both as a member of the team, as well as in your professional career path. Cass strongly believes in a "growth mindset", and encourages his team to experiment and learn.

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.)

• Healthy and local inspired snacks in all our pantries

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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: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2023-04-07

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