Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thin Technologies is seeking an experienced VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Architect / Engineer to support enterprise infrastructure modernization initiatives for customers across the United States. The role is responsible for designing, deploying, migrating, troubleshooting, documenting, and optimizing VCF environments while leading customer workshops, presenting recommendations, and supporting projects from discovery through operational transition.
Responsibilities
- Architect enterprise solutions based on **VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x**
- Develop High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for VCF environments
- Design VCF management domains, workload domains, clusters, and supporting infrastructure
- Design and implement **VCF Fleet and VCF Instance architectures** appropriate for customer availability and operational requirements
- Develop compute, storage, networking, security, availability, and management architectures
- Define infrastructure sizing, capacity, availability, resiliency, and scalability requirements
- Develop multi-datacenter and disaster recovery architectures
- Evaluate existing VMware environments and develop modernization and migration strategies
- Translate business, application, security, and operational requirements into technical architecture
- Perform hands-on installation, configuration, and deployment of VCF 9 environments
- Deploy and configure core VCF components, including: VMware ESX; VMware vCenter; VCF Operations; VCF Automation; VCF Identity Broker; NSX; SDDC Manager and associated VCF lifecycle services
- Configure VCF management and workload domains
- Configure VLAN-backed and NSX-based networking architectures as required
- Integrate VCF with enterprise DNS, NTP, Active Directory, identity, certificate, monitoring, backup, and security services
- Configure and validate lifecycle management and upgrade processes
- Troubleshoot complex VMware infrastructure issues across compute, storage, networking, and management components
- Assist customers with operationalizing newly deployed VCF environments
- Assess existing VMware environments and develop migration plans into VCF 9
- Develop migration waves, dependency requirements, sequencing, rollback procedures, and validation plans
- Support migrations between existing vSphere environments and new VCF workload domains
- Assist with datacenter consolidation, infrastructure refresh, and platform modernization projects
- Identify technical risks and dependencies that could impact migrations
- Develop cutover and migration runbooks
- Participate in production migration and cutover activities when required
- Lead technical discovery and architecture workshops
- Facilitate whiteboarding and solution-design sessions
- Present architecture and design recommendations to customers
- Present effectively to engineers, infrastructure leadership, architects, and executives
- Explain technical tradeoffs and recommendations in business terms
- Lead design reviews and obtain stakeholder agreement on architectural decisions
- Develop professional PowerPoint presentations and technical documentation
- Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, and technical issues clearly
- Represent the consulting organization professionally while working onsite with customers
- Develop professional customer-facing deliverables including: High-Level Design documents; Low-Level Design documents; Current-state assessments; Architecture diagrams; Logical and physical infrastructure diagrams; Network and storage connectivity diagrams; Firewall and communication matrices; Migration plans; Implementation runbooks; Operational procedures; Configuration standards; As-built documentation; Executive and technical presentations
Skills
- This is a highly technical, customer-facing role requiring a combination of **architecture expertise, hands-on engineering capability, strong communication and presentation skills, and a willingness to travel**
- Candidates should have strong knowledge of enterprise storage and networking concepts, including:
- Fibre Channel and NVMe/FC
- NVMe/TCP
- NFS and block storage
- SAN fabrics
- Enterprise storage arrays
- VMware multipathing and storage best practices
- VMware Distributed Switches
- VLAN-based networking
- NSX networking concepts
- Physical and virtual network integration
- 10/25/40/100Gb Ethernet environments
- Experience integrating VMware environments with platforms from vendors such as **Pure Storage, NetApp, Dell, Cisco, Arista, or similar enterprise infrastructure vendors** is highly desirable
- Candidates should be **comfortable presenting to a room, leading technical conversations, and defending architectural recommendations when challenged**
- Experience with **Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and similar documentation tools** is expected
- Candidates should have significant experience with several of the following:
- VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x
- VMware vSphere / ESX
- VMware vCenter
- VCF Operations
- VCF Automation
- NSX
- SDDC Manager
- VCF lifecycle management
- Enterprise server platforms
- Enterprise SAN and storage platforms
- Fibre Channel and/or NVMe storage technologies
- Enterprise Ethernet networking
- Active Directory and enterprise identity integration
- PKI and certificate management
- Backup and disaster recovery technologies
- Multi-site infrastructure architectures
- Datacenter migrations
- Infrastructure automation
- This position requires a willingness and ability to travel to customer locations throughout the United States
- Travel may include:
- **5–7 consecutive days onsite** for deployment, migration, workshops, or project milestones
- Multiple onsite engagements throughout the year
- Air travel and overnight stays
- Occasional evening or weekend work associated with production migrations and cutovers
- **7+ years of VMware infrastructure experience**
- **3+ years of VMware Cloud Foundation experience**
- Experience with **VCF 5.x and/or VCF 9.x**
- VMware VCP, VCAP, VCDX, or equivalent experience
- Experience designing large enterprise VMware environments
- Experience performing customer-facing consulting engagements
- Experience leading infrastructure design workshops
- Experience producing formal HLD and LLD documentation
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong presentation and whiteboarding skills
- Experience working with healthcare, financial services, utilities, government, or other highly regulated enterprise environments is a plus
Benefits
- When not required onsite, work may be performed remotely depending on project requirements.
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