Senior VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Architect / Engineer

Job Description

Hi,

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Hope you are doing well.

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Please find the job description below and let me know your interest.

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Role : Senior VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Architect / Engineer

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Location : Vienna, VA – 100% onsite – locals only

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Interview : Video

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Duration : 6 months CTH

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Position Summary

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The Senior VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 Architect / Engineer will serve as a lead technical resource responsible for the assessment, architecture, design, deployment, upgrade, integration, and validation of enterprise VMware Cloud Foundation 9 environments. This role combines solution architecture with hands-on engineering and requires experience designing and implementing complex VMware environments while maintaining interoperability with existing infrastructure, third-party technologies, disaster recovery capabilities, and hybrid-cloud services.

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The Architect will work with customer technical stakeholders, project management, vendors, and engineering resources to develop a target-state VCF 9 architecture and lead the technical execution of the approved design.

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Responsibilities may include:

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· Lead technical discovery and assessment of existing VMware environments, including architecture, configurations, clusters, hosts, networking, storage, security, integrations, and operational dependencies.

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· Develop target-state VCF 9 architectures and associated technical design recommendations.

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· Develop deployment and upgrade methodologies, implementation sequencing, validation approaches, rollback considerations, and technical execution plans.

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· Validate VCF 9 prerequisites, supported upgrade paths, hardware and software compatibility, firmware, licensing, configuration, and interoperability requirements.

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· Assess compatibility of third-party plug-ins, software integrations, storage platforms, backup solutions, replication technologies, security platforms, and other supporting systems.

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· Identify unsupported or incompatible third-party integrations and supporting technologies.

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o Provide recommended replacement or alternative solutions for affected integrations, storage platforms, backup solutions, replication technologies, or other supporting technologies, where applicable.

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· Perform hands-on VCF 9 build, configuration, deployment, upgrade, integration, and troubleshooting activities.

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· Configure and validate applicable VCF management, compute, networking, storage, security, and supporting platform services.

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· Evaluate backup, recovery, and replication dependencies as they relate to the target VCF 9 architecture.

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· Support continued asynchronous replication of applicable workloads to designated disaster recovery locations and validate interoperability with the target VCF 9 environment.

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· Integrate with and validate interoperability of existing array-provided synchronous replication solutions where applicable, without assuming responsibility for architecture or redesign of the underlying storage replication platform.

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· Perform application and workload discovery to support architecture, migration planning, dependency identification, and workload validation.

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· Plan and execute representative workload migrations to validate migration methodology, interoperability, connectivity, and platform readiness.

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· Perform infrastructure-level post-migration validation, including virtual machine status, network connectivity, storage accessibility, replication functionality where applicable, and basic infrastructure service availability.

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· Assess and validate applicable hybrid-cloud connectivity and integrations with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), including applicable government cloud environments.

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· Identify and troubleshoot complex VMware, infrastructure, integration, and interoperability issues encountered during deployment and validation.

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· Provide technical leadership and engineering guidance to customer stakeholders, project personnel, and junior engineering resources.

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· Document architecture decisions, implementation details, technical findings, risks, compatibility concerns, exceptions, and recommended next steps.

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· Develop and maintain applicable architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, implementation procedures, and validation results.

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· Provide technical knowledge transfer to designated customer personnel.

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Preferred Qualifications and Experience

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· 8+ years of progressively responsible VMware virtualization, data center, or private-cloud engineering experience.

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· Demonstrated experience architecting, deploying, upgrading, and supporting VMware Cloud Foundation environments.

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· Advanced knowledge of VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, SDDC Manager, NSX, and related VCF platform technologies.

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· Experience transitioning or migrating existing VMware environments to VMware Cloud Foundation.

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· Experience with VMware lifecycle management, upgrades, patching, image management, and platform health validation.

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· Strong understanding of enterprise networking, storage, backup, replication, disaster recovery, and workload migration technologies.

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· Experience integrating VMware with enterprise SAN/NAS storage and backup/recovery platforms.

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· Understanding of asynchronous and synchronous replication technologies, workload recovery dependencies, and RPO/RTO concepts.

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· Experience developing migration strategies, implementation plans, runbooks, rollback procedures, and validation criteria.

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· Experience troubleshooting complex VMware infrastructure, migration, storage, networking, and interoperability issues.

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· Experience with hybrid-cloud connectivity and integrations involving Microsoft Azure and AWS.

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· Strong technical documentation, architecture, communication, and customer-facing skills.

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· Experience supporting regulated environments is preferred.

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· Applicable VMware certifications or equivalent demonstrated VCF architecture and engineering expertise are preferred.

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Thanks & Regards

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Mohit Kumar

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