VCF Architect

VCF 9 Architect – Remote | USA

Job Title: VCF 9 Architect / VMware Cloud Foundation Architect

Location: Remote – USA

Employment Type: Contract / Full-Time

Experience: 10+ years in VMware / Virtualization; strong VCF 9 architecture experience

Work Authorization: Open to qualified candidates authorized to work in the USA

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced VCF 9 Architect to design, implement, modernize, and optimize enterprise VMware Cloud Foundation environments. The architect will provide technical leadership across compute, storage, networking, security, automation, lifecycle management, and private-cloud architecture.

VCF 9 integrates technologies including vSphere/ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCenter, VCF Operations, VCF Automation, HCX, and Kubernetes capabilities into an integrated private-cloud platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and design of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x environments.
• Develop HLD/LLD architecture documents, deployment designs, topology diagrams, and implementation plans.
• Design VCF Management Domains and Workload Domains based on application, security, availability, and performance requirements.
• Architect vSphere clusters, ESXi hosts, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and VCF management components.
• Design NSX networking and security , including overlay networking, segments, gateways, distributed firewall, routing, and micro-segmentation.
• Design vSAN storage architecture, capacity planning, performance, resilience, and availability.
• Architect VCF Operations and VCF Automation for monitoring, capacity management, governance, and self-service automation.
• Develop strategies for VCF 9 brownfield migration, vCenter-to-VCF conversion, workload-domain import, and VCF modernization . VCF 9 supports deployment, expansion, conversion of existing vCenter environments, and import workflows.
• Lead VCF lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and version compatibility planning.
• Define upgrade and migration strategies across VCF Operations, Automation, SDDC Manager, NSX, vCenter, ESXi, and related components .
• Design high-availability, disaster-recovery, backup, security, and business-continuity architectures.
• Support integration with enterprise networking, storage, DNS, Active Directory/LDAP, PKI, monitoring, backup, and security platforms.
• Provide architecture guidance for Kubernetes, modern applications, AI workloads, and private-cloud platforms .
• Review infrastructure capacity, performance, scalability, and operational requirements.
• Conduct architecture reviews and provide technical recommendations to engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Develop standards, reference architectures, implementation runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot complex VCF architecture and infrastructure issues and coordinate with vendor support when required.
• Mentor VMware engineers and provide technical leadership across implementation and operations teams.

Required Technical Skills

VMware / VCF

• VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x
• vSphere / ESXi
• vCenter Server
• vSAN
• NSX
• VCF Operations
• VCF Automation
• VCF Installer
• SDDC Manager
• HCX
• VCF Fleet Management
• VCF Operations for Networks and Logs

Broadcom's VCF 9 administrator materials specifically identify vCenter, ESX, vSphere Supervisor, vSAN, NSX, VCF Identity Broker, VCF Automation, VCF Operations, VCF Operations for Logs, Fleet Management, and VCF Operations for Networks/HCX as key VCF components.

Infrastructure

• Enterprise compute and storage architecture
• Data center networking
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP
• Routing and switching
• Load balancing
• SAN/NAS/NFS
• Hardware lifecycle and capacity planning

Automation

• PowerCLI
• REST APIs
• VMware automation
• Terraform and/or Ansible
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD concepts

Cloud & Modern Workloads

• Kubernetes
• VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)
• Private cloud architecture
• Hybrid cloud
• Container platforms
• AI/GPU infrastructure concepts

VCF 9.1's current platform includes vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VKS, VCF Operations, VCF Automation, HCX, and VCF Private AI Services.

Architecture & Design Responsibilities

The successful architect should be able to take an enterprise requirement and translate it into:

Business Requirements

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Capacity & Workload Assessment

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VCF Architecture & Topology

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Compute + Storage + Network + Security Design

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Management & Workload Domains

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Automation & Operations

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Implementation & Migration

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Day-2 Operations & Optimization

Preferred Qualifications

• VMware VCP/VCAP or equivalent hands-on experience.
• VCF 9.x certification or demonstrated VCF 9 architecture experience.
• Experience designing large-scale enterprise private-cloud environments.
• Experience with VCF migrations and modernization.
• Strong knowledge of VMware networking and NSX.
• Experience with vSAN architecture and troubleshooting.
• Experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with distributed U.S. teams.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an enterprise VMware/VCF architect who can work across architecture, engineering, migration, automation, networking, storage, security, and operations—not simply administer individual VMware components.

Keywords: VCF 9 Architect, VMware Cloud Foundation 9, VCF 9.x, VMware Architect, vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, VCF Operations, VCF Automation, SDDC Manager, HCX, VKS, Kubernetes, Private Cloud, NSX-T, Cloud Foundation, VMware Infrastructure, Terraform, PowerCLI, Automation, Hybrid Cloud.