Sr. Director

　　Location Bangalore

　　Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

　　The Opportunity

　　Nutanix has disrupted the multi-billion-dollar virtualization market by pioneering the converged compute & storage virtualization appliance that can incrementally scale out to manage petabytes of data while running tens of thousands of virtual machines. We strive to bring simplicity in data center management and constantly challenge ourselves to make complex systems simple. We are now onto our next leg of making hybrid multi-cloud infinitely simple and cost effective.

　　Engineering / R&D at Nutanix

　　At Nutanix Cloud Manager, we are trying to build the next generation platform to help enterprises model, develop and manage applications. We want to give them the ability to encapsulate not only infrastructure but even the application – its architecture and deployment “as code”. Our goal is to enable IT to

　　Optimize capacity, proactively detect performance anomalies, and automate operational tasks

　　Streamline management, deployment, and scale applications with self-service and centralized role-based IT governance.

　　Drive financial accountability and unify security operations with intelligent analysis and regulatory compliance.

　　Your Role

　　Hire, coach, and grow a high performing team of talented engineers with diverse skill-sets.

　　Collaborate with the geo-distributed team to own and deliver projects end to end

　　Communicate across functional teams and drive engineering initiatives

　　Participate in architecture and technical design discussions and drive product direction & strategy

　　Build and manage web scale applications

　　Responsibilities

　　Team building

　　Hire and grow a team of high performing engineers with diverse skill-sets

　　Hire, coach and grow engineering managers and program managers

　　Engineering & Release Management

　　Live the Agile principles and create a high performing team through them.

　　Refine and grow existing processes or develop new ones to enable smooth functioning of engineering team

　　Drive development of timely and high-quality software releases

　　Product and Technical

　　Drive product direction and strategy by interfacing regularly with product managers, solution architects, sales engineers, and customers

　　Drive scalable, extensible architecture by participating in architecture and technical design

　　Skills Required

　　Leadership

　　Strong leader capable of motivating the very best software engineers, as well as gaining their respect.

　　That rare mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company

　　People-oriented

　　Ensure the team of engineers and managers are happy, motivated and engaged.

　　Collaboration and communication

　　Collaborating with the geo-distributed teams

　　Communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed

　　Planning & execution

　　Should be able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines

　　Be able to keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks

　　Solid technical skills

　　Strong experience in having built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems

　　Familiarity with x86 architecture, virtualization, containers and/or storage management

　　Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, web scale systems

　　Experience in one of following programming languages: Python/GoLang/C/C++/Java

　　Working experience working with storage, virtualization and/or cloud technologies

　　Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB), Hadoop, MapReduce, Cassandra,

　　Zookeeper and other large-scale distributed database systems preferred

　　What You Will Bring

　　Qualifications and Experience:

　　BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering

　　20+ Years of experience, 10+ Years of management experience

　　Proven hands-on technical management

　　Experience working in a high growth multinational company environment

　　We're an Equal Opportunity Employer Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].