Technical Director, Server Virtualization Engineering
NetApp (Raleigh/Durham-RTP, North Carolina)

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Description: Job Summary:
Server Virtualization is driving a fundamental rearchitecting of IT infrastructure. NetApp is passionate about bringing a full suite of products to market and to continue its leadership position for storage for virtualized server environments and is seeking a highly motivated technical leader to own and direct significant part of our server virtualization strategy and development effort.

As a Technical Director of Server Virtualization you provide a strong leadership and consultative role to software development and QA teams across all of Engineering as well as all of NetApps business units. This includes responsibility for enhancements to existing products as well as new product development. The main focus will be on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.

Essential Functions:
A major part of your responsibility will be to work on issues that impact server virtualization success on existing products as well as future concepts, products or technologies.
- This individual will provide future virtualization technical vision and architectural design to the core software development teams.
- Be an advocate and driver of virtualization best practices across all NetApp software development teams.
- Work with cross-functional teams to help improve the engineering processes for developing, testing, releasing & supporting the products to meet the requirements for successful deployment in the fast growing server virtualization space.
- Successfully negotiate strategic and other issues which affect the business internally and externally.
- Must be a seasoned communicator and presenter.
- Maintain affiliations and relationships with academic and industry technical experts globally and serve as an external spokesperson for the company.
- Provide leadership and guidance to senior engineers.
- Evaluate technical partnership opportunities with 3rd party ISVs in the Server Virtualization and Grid Management space

Education & Experience:- A minimum of 15+ years of experience is required. - A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science is required. A Master Degree or PhD is preferred.- Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, extremely complex virtualization projects is a plus. Qualifications: Requirements:
- Excellent understanding of server virtualization technologies, especially VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Xen.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential, particularly presentation skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers and senior professionals across functions; and have strong influencing and leadership skills.
- Recognized expert in software design and development.
- A strong understanding of the most complex concepts related to computer architecture, data structures and programming practices.
- Ability to influence the development of strategic project plans and schedules for complex projects or new product developments.
- Storage understanding is a plus.

Responsibility and Interaction:
- Responsibility:
- The tasks this individual is responsible for are critical to the organizations future, have wide implications, and there may be multiple outcomes.
- This individual will apply many years of expertise or unique technical/industry knowledge in solving problems that are unique and extremely complex given time, budget and resource constraints.
- Demonstrate leadership and vision in determining and driving strategy decisions, process changes, business initiatives, etc.

- Interaction:
- This individual must work effectively everyone from staff to executives within the function, across functions and outside of the organization.
- This individual is a recognized expert and exercises wide latitude in determining own objectives and approaches to critical assignments.
- Is seen as a leader, or "guru" by others in the function and organization. Salary/Benefits: Salary commensurate with experience To learn more about NetApp employee benefits go to: http://www.netapp.com/jobs/benefits.html Job Location: USA - California - Sunnyvale, CA Job Number: 1475BR Company URL: http://www.netapp.com Company Profile: NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.

Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting your data, business, and reputation.

We bring together the industry's best partners and technology to deliver services that help you maximize what you are getting from your infrastructure. Our collaborative approach, working as one team with one goal, means that you get a solution that is just right for you-on time and on budget. To support your global business, we provide highly-responsive support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, well work with you to solve your problems and help you reach your goals.

Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.