Software group VMware said it will create more than 200 jobs by the end of 2025, expanding its Dublin office and beefing up its tech team in Ireland.
The new roles will help boost innovation in its multi-cloud platform and cross-cloud services. The company will be recruiting engineers, project managers and graduate-level developers.
VMware offers a portfolio of software as a service (SaaS) solutions using a multi-cloud platform with cross-cloud, which allows organisations to build, run, manage and secure their applications across any cloud.
Although the roles will be based out of Dublin as a hub, employees will be able to work remotely, a factor the company hopes will attract the right workers from across Ireland.
The expanded team will be led by Andrei Grigoriev, VMware’s vice-president of engineering, and will focus on driving innovation for the future of cloud technology and developing new cloud services.
It will also mark a significant expansion in Ireland for the company, which already employs more than 1,000 people here, making the State the third-largest VMware location worldwide.
“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,” said Kit Colbert, senior vice-president and chief technology officer at VMware.
The company, which was spun off from Dell Technologies last year into an independent company, first set up in Ireland in 2005. Last month, it was announced that chipmaker Broadcom had agreed to buy VMware for $61 billion, making it one of the largest technology deals of all time.
News of the new jobs was welcomed by Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar. “VMware’s decision to expand is an incredible achievement and a great boost to our efforts to reach historic employment levels in this country,” he said. “I’m particularly pleased to see VMware offering the option to work remotely. Remote and flexible working is something I’m passionate about and want to see a lot more of.”
The Government is supporting VMWare’s expansion through IDA Ireland.
“By establishing this new engineering hub, enterprise tech leader VMware is adding a new strategic R&D mandate to Ireland,” said Martin Shanahan, chief executive of IDA Ireland. “This demonstrates the company’s confidence both in our local talent and in Ireland’s ability to deliver next-generation, core technology for VMware. This investment by VMware is very welcome, and IDA Ireland offers its ongoing support to the team.”
VMware was founded in 1998, inventing virtualisation software that consolidated applications and workloads on a smaller number of server computers and made it easier for servers to handle more than one programme. However, as cloud services gained in popularity, VMware struggled and eventually partnered with Amazon. In 2004, it was bought by storage giant EMC, which was subsequently acquired by Dell in 2016. Dell and private-equity backer Silver Lake remained top investors in the software company.
