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VCF Architect -Design and Deploy
Quantix
🌏 Worldwide
Remote
5 months ago
- VMware
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
5 months ago
Type: Contract *please specify if you can do 40, hours, 20, hours, or open to both
Duration: Some projects are 2 months, some are 12 months. You can potentially move from contract to contract.
Note: If selected, you will be on the bench, and they will make you offers as they come in – and they come in VERY regularly
Rate:Give your best rate
Description and Overview
The VCF Design and Deploy Architect will work directly with customers to understand business requirements and design a VCF9 architecture. This role focuses on high-level and low-level solution architecture and design leadership, ensuring that deployments align with VMware best practices and customer goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead design workshops and discovery sessions with customer stakeholders.
- Develop architecture diagrams, business requirements, high-level, low-level designs for VCF 9.
- Define workload domain strategy, NSX design, vSAN policies, Fleet management, SDDC Manager integration.
- Provide input to transformation roadmaps and migration strategies from legacy vSphere/VCF.
- Collaborate with oversight architects, consultants, project managers, and partner teams to ensure designs are executed effectively.
- Review and approve design artifacts, ensuring alignment with VMware reference architectures.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customer executives and technical leads.
Required Skills & Experience No ex Broadcom experience needed
- 8+ years VMware experience
- Hands-on experience designing VMware Cloud Foundation 5x / 9x solutions.
- Training in VCF 9 (hands-on preferred).
- Deep technical knowledge of VCF, including vSphere architecture, NSX, vSAN, and VCF Automation and VCF Operations.
- Strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- Hybrid cloud experience (VMC on AWS, or Azure VMware Solution, or Google Cloud VMware Engine).
- Familiarity with VCF Suite, containerization, and enterprise automation strategies.
Certifications PLUS ONLY
- VMware Cloud Foundation Architect (2V0-13.25)
Skills Checklist
Core Design Capabilities
- Multi-region and multi-site VCF design
- Workload domain strategy and segregation
- NSX networking and security design
- vSAN storage architecture and policies
- SDDC Manager and Fleet management design
- Customer-facing discovery and design workshops
- Discussing design tradeoffs and alternatives
- Executive and technical stakeholder presentations
- Trusted advisor relationship building
- Translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Document risks and design decisions
- Capture functional and non-functional requirements
- Create high-level and low-level design documents
- Develop architecture diagrams and deployment blueprints
- Legacy vSphere to VCF 9 migration strategies
- Upgrade and lifecycle planning
- VCF 9.0 architecture and new capabilities
- VCF 5x and 9x hands-on experience
- VCF Operations integration
- VMware validated solutions and reference architectures
- Work with consultants, project managers, and partners
- Design review and approval processes
- Cross-team coordination and alignment
VCF Architect -Design and Deploy · Quantix