AVI Architect

About the role

Entelligence is a technology-enabled services company that partners with leading SaaS organizations to deliver complex implementations, scale operations, and drive customer success. Through our white-label talent delivery platform, we provide highly skilled, on-demand experts who help our customers execute critical initiatives with speed, precision, and reliability. We are a value-driven organization and a Great Place to Work® Certified company, focused on building high-performing teams, delivering exceptional customer outcomes, and continuously improving how we operate.

How we work is just as important as what we deliver. Our values guide how we make decisions, collaborate, and show up every day: Grit, Customer Obsession, Courage, Speed, Hungry.

The AVI Architect is responsible for designing and guiding the implementation of VMware Avi Load Balancing solutions to support enterprise-level customer and business outcomes. This role focuses on hands-on architecture, including translating application, network, and infrastructure requirements into scalable load balancing and application delivery designs and supporting delivery teams through implementation. This position works closely with clients, consultants, application teams, network teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned to best practices across load balancing, application delivery, networking, security, and automation. The architect regularly uses VMware Avi Load Balancer and related VMware platforms, including VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere, NSX, and vDefend, and is expected to operate independently, communicate clearly, and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of VMware Avi Load Balancer solutions, including Controllers, Service Engines, Virtual Services, Pools, Health Monitors, and related application delivery components.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to assess application, business, network, and technical requirements, translating them into scalable Avi load balancing architectures.
• Design and implement Avi solutions across enterprise data centers, private cloud, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere, and NSX environments.
• Develop high-level design documentation and provide architectural oversight throughout delivery.
• Provide expert-level guidance on application delivery, load balancing, traffic management, high availability, scalability, performance optimization, and operational best practices.
• Design and support advanced Avi capabilities including GSLB, DNS services, SSL/TLS termination, application health monitoring, traffic policies, analytics, and application visibility.
• Integrate Avi Load Balancer with VMware NSX and other network and security services to support enterprise application architectures.
• Provide technical leadership for Avi migrations, upgrades, platform modernization, and integration initiatives.
• Troubleshoot complex load balancing, application delivery, networking, and performance issues and provide architectural recommendations.
• Operate under the client’s brand and processes, delivering seamless, white-labeled consulting services.
• Maintain strong communication and relationships with client teams.

Qualifications

• Active or recent VMware certification in one or more of the following: VCP-VCF, VCP-NV, VCP-DCV, or related VMware certification track.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering VMware Avi Load Balancer / Advanced Load Balancing environments at enterprise scale.
• Deep understanding of application delivery, load balancing, networking, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, and high-availability architecture principles.
• Strong experience designing Avi Virtual Services, Pools, Service Engines, Health Monitors, and application traffic policies.
• Experience integrating Avi with VMware vSphere, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
• Strong consulting and client-facing communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and lead complex technical initiatives.
• Preferred: Advanced VMware certifications or VMware Advanced Load Balancing / Avi credentials.
• Preferred: Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware NSX, vSphere, and vDefend.
• Preferred: Experience with VMware Avi Load Balancer / Advanced Load Bal