Senior Cloud Automation Developer

We are a $13+ billion global technology company, home to more than 220,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centred around digital, engineering, cloud, and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products.

HCLTech is a globally recognized leader in the Tech and IT industry, but we’ve never forgotten the startup mindset that got us here. We’ve always approached our work with an idea-first attitude because every one of our accomplishments —no matter how big or small —can be traced back to an idea’s single spark.

It’s that spark —that inner drive —that sets our people apart from our competitors. It enables us not just to pull off game-changing feat after game-changing feat but to better our world in the process. We want you to find your spark. Because that’s what drives you to be better, be more and ultimately, be more fulfilled.

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

VMware Professional Services Worldwide Center Engineering is a global engineering organization, developing custom solutions, primarily automations and integrations of the VMware products with 3rd party systems to provide E2E solutions and brings additional capabilities to existing products and services. Our solutions often become the backbone of global enterprise private and public clouds. We are builders of the future.

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

• Work as part of a global Cloud Automation Consulting Team on large enterprise engagements independently

• Get familiar with VMware Cloud portfolio in respect to automation, orchestration, and extensibility

• Interacting directly with customers, lead demos and participate in scoping workshops

• Leading technical workshops with customers, gathering requirements and consult customer for best practices

• Lead development teams, create solution designs, improve and apply best practices

• Proactive individual & own team enablement & knowledge strengthening

• Establish and enforce standards for high quality, maintainability and reusability of source code components, libraries, and solutions

• Collaborate with Project Managers, Delivery Managers & PMO

• Innovate and implement services for custom automation and integration solutions

• Independently manage stakeholders & partners in project engagements

• Communicate at all levels

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

You will be designing and building backend solutions most of which are based on TypeScript and/or object-oriented JavaScript . Those are to be used in large-scale data centers (think millions of virtual machines). For Linux OS-level configuration, you will be using Ansible , Bash . For Windows – PowerShell . With infrastructure as code principles you will be engineering CI/CD pipelines, automated workflows, and services such as load balancer as a service, database as a service, … anything as a service.

From a team management aspect, you will work within a cross-team of architects, PMs, technical writers, quality or system engineers to ensure high quality, on time and in-budget deliverables.

You are expected to be among the strongest voices on technical topics on pre-sales calls and technical discussions with the customer. You will have the opportunity to create and present low level-designs that might involve event-driven architectures; message brokers; micro and nano-services. Being the leading example in your team, your role will also involve as well taking part in technical interviews and mentoring senior developers.

Your work will have a wide and lasting impact in the company.

What Other Skills are an Advantage?

We hire people from various development backgrounds: Java, .NET, Python, NodeJS . It is not the language but the seniority what matters to us.

A great advantage for the candidate would be the possession of infrastructure and networking skills or experience.

You will act as a consultant to the customer by understanding and fulfilling their requirements, while communicating clearly ( in English ) with architects, developers, DevOps, quality engineers project managers, and technical writers. Your solutions should be following the latest best development practices.

Additional skills that may also be considered an advantage:

• Understanding of virtual IT production data center

• Experience with networking, firewalls and load balancers

• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with Active Directory, databases, backup and IPAM systems

• TypeScript/NodeJS backend experience

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

We have teams that work for EMEA, Americas, and Asia Pacific/Japan. Each geography is having an engineering manager with over 10 years of experience on average in leadership. Prior to joining CoE our managers have worked in other R&D units of HCLTech or as leaders of world class IT companies.

Each team is of 10 developers having a team lead reporting to a manager. Our management values honesty, creativity, and persistence.