VMware Cloud Architect / Consultant (66817-1)

head-huntress.com•San Francisco, CA

35d

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