Cloud services giant VMware is expanding its presence in Dublin, with plans to create 205 new tech jobs by 2025.
Cloud services giant VMware is expanding its presence in Dublin with a commitment to recruit 205 new jobs by 2025. To drive further global innovation around its multi-cloud platform and the way businesses consume cloud services, VMware will draw on Ireland’s highly skilled workforce, including engineers, project managers, and graduate-level developers, and has appointed Andrei Grigoriev, Vice President of Engineering to lead the team in Ireland.
The investment is supported by the Irish Government through IDA Ireland.
This expansion extends the presence of VMware’s Office of the CTO, which is dedicated to exploring, inspiring, researching, and innovating technologies that impact the future, in Ireland.
The new hires will focus on driving innovation to forge the multi-cloud platform of the future and contribute to the delivery of new cloud services. VMware’s multi-cloud platform with Cross-Cloud services is an integrated portfolio of SaaS solutions to help organisations build, run, manage, and secure all of their applications across any cloud.
The extended team builds on VMware’s established presence in Ireland, which is already the third-largest location for VMware globally with more than 1,000 employees. The firm opened its first Irish office in Cork in 2005.
Europe remains a key region for VMware and expanding its engineering closer to customers and talent is essential to achieving the business’s vision of becoming the global multi-cloud leader and employer of choice.
Andrei Grigoriev, the new VP of Engineering, will play a critical role in providing technical leadership for creating a world-class engineering team that drives multi-cloud services and helping bolster the region’s software engineering expertise.
Grigoriev brings over two decades of experience in software development, product management and organisational leadership. His proven track record building complex distributed systems and leading engineering teams to deliver large-scale enterprise systems software, will be pivotal in spearheading Ireland’s SaaS and multi-cloud adoption.
Kit Colbert, Senior Vice President, and Chief Technology Officer, VMware, said:
“Ireland is an important geography for VMware and our commitment to recruit more than 200 talented technologists in Dublin to bolster our multi-cloud innovation is testament to the exceptional talent pool Ireland provides. It is with Andrei’s engineering leadership that we will build and foster a team that develops world-class multi-cloud services that organisations can easily consume and embrace to accelerate their digital ambitions.”
While the team will have a hub in Dublin, the new VMware employees will have the opportunity to exercise anywhere working, which the business believes maximises productivity, morale, performance, and team cohesion. By offering the opportunity to work remotely, VMware hopes to attract leading talent across Ireland.
Welcoming the investment Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar said:
“This is excellent news. VMware’s decision to expand is an incredible achievement and a great boost to our efforts to reach historic employment levels in this country.