VMware Cloud Architect Consultant

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Required Technical Skills

vSphere/ESXi vCenter vSAN NSX (T) Aria/vRealize Suite SRM HCX Tanzu/Kubernetes

Hybrid cloud (on-prem cloud VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP)

Network overlays

Egress controls and cost-aware architectures

VMware ESXi & vCenter (8/9)

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

VMware Lifecycle Manager

Preferred Qualifications

VMware certifications (VCP-DCV VCAP VCF Specialist)

Soft Skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work in 24/7 critical environments

Analytical and troubleshooting mindset

Team collaboration and documentation discipline

Roles & Responsibilities

Role Overview

VMware consultant who can shape platform strategy own end-to-end architecture and lead complex transformations across private hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The ideal candidate blends hands-on depth (vSphere vSAN NSX Aria/vRealize SRM HCX VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP Tanzu) with consulting acumenable to advise executives develop roadmaps build target-state reference architectures and guide delivery teams from discovery through steady state.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Advisory

Lead assessment workshops to baseline current state (infrastructure operations cost risk) and define target-state SDDC/cloud strategy

Build business cases (TCO/ROI) migration waves and investment plans; present to senior leadership and architecture review boards

Define governance landing zones guardrails and operating models for VMware platforms in enterprise contexts

Architecture & Design

Create high- and low-level designs (HLD/LLD)

Develop capacity and resilience models (HA/DR patterns RPO/RTO)

Define security reference architectures (micro-segmentation zero-trust segmentation policies)

Delivery Leadership

Lead discovery POCs pilots and phased migrations for data center consolidations and application modernizations

Direct cross-functional teams (network security storage platform DevOps) and coach engineers on best practices and automation

Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation patterns (PowerCLI Terraform Ansible) and integrate with CI/CD where applicable

Operations Reliability & Security

Define SRE/operational runbooks monitoring/observability (Aria Operations/Operations for Logs) capacity patch baselines and lifecycle management

Implement DR/BCP with SRM (runbooks test plans) plus backup/recovery integrations

Drive cost optimization (rightsizing consolidation reserved capacity planning) and license posture management

Partner with security audit and compliance teams on policy alignment (e.g. SOX/PCI/FFIEC/HIPAA as relevant)

Stakeholder Engagement & Pre-Sales Support

Translate technical decisions into business outcomes and risk trade-offs; create C-level decks design packs and decision logs

Support RFP/RFI responses sizing and solution estimation

Additional Requirements

Strong scripting/automation: PowerCLI (must-have); Terraform/Ansible/Python (nice-to-have)

Proven ability to produce HLD/LLD migration plans and executive presentations

Excellent communication stakeholder management and consulting skills

Required Technical Skills vSphere/ESXi vCenter vSAN NSX (T) Aria/vRealize Suite SRM HCX Tanzu/Kubernetes Hybrid cloud (on-prem cloud VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP) Network overlays Egress controls and cost-aware architectures VMware ESXi & vCenter (8/9) VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) VMware Lifecycl...