VMware Cloud Architect / Consultant (66817-1)

head-huntress.comSan Francisco, CA

About The Position

VMware Consultant – Platform Strategy & Architecture Role Overview VMware consultant who can shape platform strategy, own end-to-end architecture, and lead complex transformations across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. The ideal candidate blends deep hands-on expertise (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria/vRealize, SRM, HCX, VMware Cloud on AWS/Azure/GCP, Tanzu) with strong consulting acumen. This individual will advise executives, develop strategic roadmaps, build target-state reference architectures, and guide delivery teams from discovery through steady state.

Requirements

  • Strong scripting and automation skills:
  • Required: PowerCLI
  • Proven ability to produce:
  • HLD/LLD documentation
  • Migration plans
  • Executive-level presentations
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and consulting skills

Nice To Haves

  • Preferred: Terraform, Ansible, Python

Responsibilities

  • Strategy & Advisory Lead assessment workshops to baseline current state (infrastructure, operations, cost, risk)
  • Define target-state SDDC and cloud strategy
  • Build business cases (TCO/ROI), migration waves, and investment plans
  • Present to senior leadership and architecture review boards
  • Define governance, landing zones, guardrails, and operating models for enterprise VMware platforms
  • Architecture & Design Create high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD)
  • Develop capacity and resilience models (HA/DR patterns, RPO/RTO)
  • Define security reference architectures (micro-segmentation, zero-trust, segmentation policies)
  • Delivery Leadership Lead discovery, proofs of concept (POCs), pilots, and phased migrations
  • Support data center consolidations and application modernization initiatives
  • Direct cross-functional teams (network, security, storage, platform, DevOps)
  • Coach engineers on best practices and automation
  • Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation patterns (PowerCLI, Terraform, Ansible)
  • Integrate automation with CI/CD pipelines where applicable
  • Operations, Reliability & Security Define SRE/operational runbooks and best practices
  • Implement monitoring and observability (Aria Operations / Operations for Logs)
  • Manage capacity planning, patch baselines, and lifecycle management
  • Implement disaster recovery and business continuity (SRM runbooks, test plans)
  • Integrate backup and recovery solutions
  • Drive cost optimization (rightsizing, consolidation, reserved capacity planning)
  • Manage licensing posture
  • Partner with security, audit, and compliance teams (SOX, PCI, FFIEC, HIPAA as applicable)
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Pre-Sales Support Translate technical decisions into business outcomes and risk trade-offs
  • Develop C-level presentations, design documentation, and decision logs
  • Support RFP/RFI responses, solution sizing, and estimation
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