Senior Staff Engineer - VCF Lead Architect

Job description

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (15000+ experts across 26 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in! We are looking for a VCF Lead Architect to lead enterprise VMware modernization engagements, moving large vSphere 8 environments to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x. You will own the technical direction, define target architectures and migration roadmaps, and act as the lead technical advisor to client stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Assess multi-vCenter vSphere 8 environments, including Enhanced Linked Mode, Distributed Switch readiness and blockers to VCF adoption. Evaluate identity changes (Integrated Windows Authentication to LDAPS) and third-party backup compatibility with VCF. Produce compatibility baselines, risk registers and phased migration roadmaps. Define target-state ESXi boot and lifecycle architecture, including Auto Deploy, vSphere Lifecycle Manager images and UEFI HTTPS Boot. Guide client teams in designing and validating VCF lab environments (Holodeck), covering NSX, VCF Operations and lifecycle workflows. Lead client workshops, present findings to technical and leadership audiences, and review the work of other engineers on the team. Required Skills Hands-on VMware Cloud Foundation experience (VCF 5.x or later): SDDC Manager, management and workload domains, lifecycle management. Strong vSphere 8 architecture skills: vCenter, ESXi, ELM, DRS/HA, EVC and VDS. Working knowledge of NSX, VCF Operations (Aria Operations) and Active Directory over LDAPS. Proven experience writing assessment reports, architecture designs and migration roadmaps. Excellent communication skills in English for client-facing work. Good to Have Exposure to VCF 9.x or VMware Holodeck. Auto Deploy and stateless ESXi at scale. Experience with Rubrik or similar backup platforms. Experience in multi-vCenter consolidation projects. Must have skills: ESXi & LDAP, VMware, vSphere 8