Senior VmWare Cloud Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• VMware vSphere/vCenter (7.x/8.x): Architect, deploy, and maintain large-scale virtual infrastructures, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance using vSphere and vCenter.
• Design, implement, and manage network virtualization using NSX-T, providing dynamic networking and security across hybrid cloud environments.
• Manage and optimize software-defined storage environments using VMware vSAN, ensuring performance, scalability, and redundancy for critical workloads.
• Lead the deployment and administration of VMware Cloud Director for cloud automation, resource provisioning, and multi-tenancy management.
• Plan and execute cloud migration strategies using VMware HCX, enabling seamless workload mobility across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Design and implement Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions to enhance scalability, security, and agility in managing network services within virtual and cloud environments.
• Integrate and optimize NSX-T with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments, ensuring consistent network policies and seamless network virtualization.
• Automate routine tasks related to virtualization and SDN using PowerCLI, Ansible, or similar tools, focusing on improving operational efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
• Performance, Security & Troubleshooting:
• Proactively monitor the performance of VMware environments using VMware vRealize Operations (vROps), identifying and resolving bottlenecks, failures, and performance degradation issues.
• Ensure the security of virtualized and SDN environments by implementing NSX-T micro-segmentation and other network security best practices.
• Conduct advanced troubleshooting of VMware and SDN environments, diagnosing complex issues across compute, network, and storage layers to ensure minimal downtime and high service availability.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Overall 10+ yrs experience on Networking, Network Design, Network Security, Cloud, Data Center etc.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies and managing large-scale VMware environments.
• Expertise in the following VMware products: VMWare vSphere / vCenter 7.x/8.x NSX-T vSAN VMWare
• Familiar with upgrading VMware Aria Operations , VMware Aria Operations for Logs and other VMware solutions

Certification Required:

• VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud
• AWS Certified Solution Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional