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**The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**Enterprises are running mission critical software in more places than ever before -- in their datacenter, 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.Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) provides Enterprise organizations with a consistent, upstream compatible, Kubernetes substrate across SDDC, Public Cloud, and Edge environments that is ready for end-user workloads and ecosystem integrations. TKG builds on trusted open source and community projects and delivers an engineered and supported Kubernetes platform for end users and partners.This opportunity supports delivering on VMware's highest priorities and supporting our customers with a platform to support their developers and modern applications.**What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?**You will be a part of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid leadership team, helping ensure and implement security practices into VMware's Kubernetes distribution. As a Team Lead in the program, you will work both on the downstream product and contribute to the upstream Kubernetes project.**Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?**+ You have become familiar with the product's technical domain and the security challenges facing TKG development teams & Kubernetes operators.+ You are using your knowledge of our technical domain to advise and influence cross-team collaborations+ You enable TKG to quickly route escalations resulting from vulnerability to the right feature team for triage and remediation.+ You champion a secure development process, working with engineering & product leadership to create processes & tooling that enable TKG teams to create a product which is secure by default**What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?**+ Partner with product management teams to help prioritize work internally and across across organizational boundaries+ Validate and ensure resolution to customer vulnerability scans and security incidents in TKG+ Ensure vulnerability scans are regularly run against every TKG component, documenting assessed impact to product+ Define process and policies for responding to customer escalations with respect to vulnerabilities and embargoed CVEs+ Author customer facing security focussed documentation, such as security whitepapers, CIS benchmark scan results analysis, knowledge base (kB) articles+ Support development teams in supporting compliance with FIPS, CIS Benchmarks and regulations**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 Jeremy Morony, Engineering Manager for the TKG Security Operations team. Jeremy is a technical leader with 20 years of programming, facilitation, coaching, and mentoring experience at both startups and larger companies. He joined VMware as part of the Pivotal acquisition in December 2019.The TKG Security Operations team believes sustainable pace and psychological safety foster creativity and a productive work environment. We care deeply about collaboration, both with the open source community and within our own teams. Teammates are always accessible to lend a helping hand both remotely and in-person.We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are a learning organization and believe that diverse teams are stronger and more effective at solving the complex problems we make simple for our customers. Empathy, diverse points of view, approaches, and skill sets bring us to the best solution faster, together.You might like working with us if you:+ Like working as a part of a balanced team, empowered to make its own decisions+ Focus on customer outcomes rather than number of features delivered+ Prioritize equitable treatment, inclusivity, and diversity both within your team and in the broader organization**Category :** Engineering and Technology**Subcategory:** Software Engineering**Experience:** Business Leadership**Full Time/ Part Time:** Full Time**Posted Date:** 2022-04-01VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what's possible today at mware.com.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. 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