Job Description

Senior VCFEngineer

Rate: 600-650pd Location: Onsite - Somerset Contract: 6 months - possible extension

Are you looking for an opportunity to take the lead on high-assurance VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x deployments We have an exciting role for a Senior VCF Engineer to join a high-security UK project onsite. Youll drive VCF orchestration NSX networking & security Aria Operations and storage integration ensuring a secure resilient and fully managed private cloud. This role is ideal for engineers with expert-level VCF/NSX experience and experience in MOD government or national infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Management and Workload Domains using SDDC Manager VCF Installer (Cloud Builder) and VCF Operations.

• Design and implement NSX virtual networking topologies including Tier-0/Tier-1 gateways load balancers and Distributed Firewall (DFW) micro-segmentation policies.

• Configure and optimize Aria Operations Aria Logs and Aria Automation for proactive management and automation.

• Integrate NetApp ONTAP storage with performance and path redundancy in mind.

• Manage patching and upgrades of the full VMware stack (ESXi vCenter NSX Aria) via VCFs Lifecycle Management (LCM) workflows.

• Collaborate on identity and authentication security for all management planes.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation (v8.x/9.x) and multi-site/multi-cluster architectures.

• Deep experience with VMware NSX particularly security-driven networking and overlay-to-underlay integration.

• Proficient with Aria Operations Aria Logs and Aria Automation.

• Experience in UK High-Security environments (MOD Government or National Infrastructure).

Preferred Certifications:

• VCP-VMC VMware Certified Professional: VMware Cloud

• VCIX-NV VMware Certified Implementation Expert: Network Virtualization