Vmware Cloud Foundation Vcf X Design

Summary

We are looking for a senior VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x Solutions Architect / Implementation Lead to lead the architecture, planning, design, deployment, configuration, and validation of enterprise VCF environments. The candidate should have strong hands-on implementation experience, combining technical architecture expertise with the ability to lead customer-facing discovery and planning workshops.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead customer workshops to assess existing infrastructure, gather requirements, and document deployment prerequisites.
• Develop the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Workbook (Excel deliverable).
• Lead end-to-end VCF architecture, design, deployment planning, configuration, integration, and validation.
• Design production environments considering availability, resiliency, capacity, security, networking, storage, and operational requirements.
• Assess existing Aria Automation environments and develop upgrade or migration approaches.
• Identify technical dependencies, compatibility requirements, risks, constraints, and prerequisites.
• Validate infrastructure readiness, including VLANs, subnets, gateways, MTU, routing, DNS, NTP, IP addressing, certificates, and hardware compatibility.
• Provide technical guidance and support throughout implementation and operational handoff.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x architecture and deployment.
• Deep expertise in vSphere, including clusters, HA, DRS, resource management, networking, and storage.
• Strong knowledge of VMware NSX architecture, transport networks, segments, gateways, routing, and Edge architecture.
• Experience with VCF lifecycle management, upgrades, compatibility, prechecks, and remediation.
• Experience assessing VMware Aria Automation environments and planning upgrades or migrations.
• Strong infrastructure networking, compute, storage, and hardware integration knowledge.
• Proven troubleshooting capabilities across VMware infrastructure components.

Preferred / Additional

• Ability to lead customer-facing discovery and planning workshops.
• Ability to meet required onsite visit schedule (see metadata).