VMware Consultant Platform Strategy & Architecture

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 deep hands-on expertise (vSphere vSAN NSX Aria/vRealize SRM HCX VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP Tanzu) with strong consulting acumen. This individual will advise executives develop strategic roadmaps build target-state reference architectures and guide delivery teams from discovery through steady state.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy & Advisory

• Lead assessment workshops to baseline current state (infrastructure operations cost risk)
  
• Define target-state SDDC and 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 enterprise VMware platforms
  

2. Architecture & Design

• Create high-level 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)
  

3. Delivery Leadership

• Lead discovery proofs of concept (POCs) pilots and phased migrations
  
• Support data center consolidations and application modernization initiatives
  
• Direct cross-functional teams (network security storage platform DevOps)
  
• Coach engineers on best practices and automation
  
• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation patterns (PowerCLI Terraform Ansible)
  
• Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines where applicable
  

4. Operations Reliability & Security

• Define SRE/operational runbooks and best practices
  
• Implement monitoring and observability (Aria Operations / Operations for Logs)
  
• Manage capacity planning patch baselines and lifecycle management
  
• Implement disaster recovery and business continuity (SRM runbooks test plans)
  
• Integrate backup and recovery solutions
  
• Drive cost optimization (rightsizing consolidation reserved capacity planning)
  
• Manage licensing posture
  
• Partner with security audit and compliance teams (SOX PCI FFIEC HIPAA as applicable)
  

5. Stakeholder Engagement & Pre-Sales Support

• Translate technical decisions into business outcomes and risk trade-offs
  
• Develop C-level presentations design documentation and decision logs
  
• Support RFP/RFI responses solution sizing and estimation
  

Requirements