VMware Cloud Architect / Consultant (66817-1)
head-huntress.com, San Francisco, CA, United States
VMware Cloud Architect / Consultant (66817-1)
Posted On 03/19/2026
Job Information
Information Technology and Services
Work Experience 10
Required Skills
- Aria/vRealize Suite
- HCX
- +8
Education Bachelor’s degree
Relocation Assistance No
$166,400/year
Pay Rate $80.00
City San Francisco
State/Province California
94102
Job Description
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.
Key Responsibilities
1. 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
- 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)
3. 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
4. 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)
5. 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
Requirements
Additional Requirements
- Strong scripting and automation skills:
- Required: PowerCLI
- Preferred: Terraform, Ansible, Python
- Proven ability to produce:
- HLD/LLD documentation
- Migration plans
- Executive-level presentations
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and consulting skills