Sr VCF Solutions Architect / Implementation Lead.

About the role

Sr VCF Solutions Architect / Implementation Lead leading the architecture, planning, design, deployment, configuration, and validation of enterprise VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x environments, owning technical decisions and customer-facing workshops, translating requirements into deployment-ready configuration data, and leading stakeholder engagement to assess current-state infrastructure, capture planning prerequisites, and document deployment requirements for the VCF Planning and Preparation Workbook.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, planning, design, deployment, configuration, and validation of VCF 9.x environments.
• Own technical architecture decisions and facilitate customer discovery/planning workshops.
• Translate business requirements into deployment‑ready configuration data.
• Engage with customer stakeholders to assess current‑state infrastructure, capture planning prerequisites, and document deployment requirements.
• Support completion of the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook (XLS) deliverable.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of VCF 9.x architecture, components, deployment model, lifecycle management, infrastructure services, and workload domains.
• Experience planning and leading end‑to‑end VCF deployment, configuration, integration, validation, and operational handoff.
• Ability to design and configure production VCF environments considering availability, resiliency, capacity, security, networking, storage, and operational requirements.
• Deep experience with vSphere architecture, clusters, HA, DRS, resource management, networking, storage, VM placement, and lifecycle considerations.
• Strong knowledge of NSX architecture and VCF networking, including transport/network design, segments, gateways, routing, edge architecture, and dependencies for VCF deployment.
• Understanding of VCF component lifecycle, compatibility/dependency considerations, upgrade sequencing, prechecks, remediation planning, and lifecycle operational considerations.
• Ability to assess an existing Aria Automation environment and develop an upgrade/migration approach, identifying dependencies, prerequisites, compatibility considerations, risks, and validation requirements.
• Ability to validate VLANs, subnets, gateways, MTU, routing, DNS, NTP, IP addressing, load‑balancing/network service requirements and other deployment dependencies.
• Ability to evaluate compute, networking, storage, firmware/hardware compatibility, DNS/NTP, certificates, and environmental prerequisites before deployment.
• Ability to identify technical dependencies, assumptions, constraints, risks, prerequisites, and customer actions before implementation.
• Strong troubleshooting ability across vSphere, VCF, NSX, storage, networking, automation, and interconnected infrastructure services.

Pay

Required rate – all inclusive of required travel.

Schedule

Duration: 741 hours hybrid engagement with two separate one‑week trips to Downtown New York (one in November, one in December). Remote‑hybrid work with travel to NYC required.