Senior Technical Director - (job 27464)

Company: NetApp / SolidFire
Location: Raleigh
Posted on: January 17, 2020

Job Description:

Senior Technical Director-- (27464) Work Locations / Options Boulder, CO or Sunnyvale, CA Boulder is optimal, since the bulk of the team you'll be working with is located there.-- We are willing to consider other location options, some travel will be required. Relocation assistance is available. -- Job Summary: NetApp is seeking a Sr Technical Director, Networking to join the SolidFire team. This role will report directly to the VP of Engineering, responsible for the NetApp HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure), and the Solidfire AFA (All Flash Array) product lines.-- As a Senior Technical Director of Software Engineering you hold the most senior position in the R & D function as an individual contributor. You provide strong leadership and a strategic consultative role to the organization as related to driving product development and strategy.-- A major part of your responsibility will be to work on issues that impact development success or address future concepts, products or technologies. - Provide future technical vision to the function as well as the organization as a whole. - Successfully negotiate strategic and other issues which effect the business internally and externally Key responsibilities for this role: Strong understanding of Server and compute virtualization, hypervisors and virtual machine management. Knowledge of multiple hypervisor stacks, namely VMware and KVM Containers and OS virtualization - deep understanding of the container ecosystem with Docker and Kubernetes. Able to design complex microservices based architectures Proficiency with automating deployment, scaling, load balancing and management of containerized applications Good understanding of networking internals, L2 and L3 switching/routing, Virtual and Software Defined networking Strong concepts around Virtual Private Cloud, network security (IPSec/TLS) Knowledge of network congestion management, new trends around networking like NFV, DC-TCP and low latency lossless networks is a big plus Must be a seasoned communicator and presenter. Maintain affiliations and relationships with academic and industry technical experts globally, and serve as external spokesperson for the company.-- - Provide leadership and guidance to Senior Engineers. -- Essential Job functions: Develop and evangelize technical vision within the CIBU organization and extend NetApp's IP portfolio Partner with Product Management to drive roadmap planning and prioritization discussions Ability to translate product requirements and challenges into a scalable and sustainable architecture influencing the technical direction Provide technical direction and guidance to engineering leadership and executive staff. Successfully solve strategic and product execution challenges. Align product direction by successfully recognizing relevant technology and industry trends Provide leadership, mentoring and guidance to senior technical staff members Education: B.S., or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field/ equivalent experience. -- So, are you data-driven? We at NetApp believe in the transformative power of data - to expand customer touchpoints, to foster greater innovation, and to optimize operations. We are designed for simplicity, optimized to protect, created to embrace future opportunity, and open to enrich choice. We are the data authority for hybrid cloud, and we are helping our customers realize the full potential of their data. -- We've built a Data Fabric for a data-driven world - to simplify and integrate data management across the resources that are best for the business. With the Data Fabric, our customers can harness the power of cloud data services, build cloud infrastructures, and modernize storage through data management. -- By building cloud infrastructures, customers get the scale and quality of service that modern applications require. Only NetApp can help organizations focus on the business at hand when they develop a zero-touch infrastructure that manages apps, data and services as one integrated resource supporting both public and private clouds. -- Join us and see what empowerment can do. -- -- -- Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Vets/Disabled

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