Architect – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite)

Job title: Architect – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite)

About the Role The VMware Cloud Foundation Architect is a senior technical authority responsible for the end-to-end architecture, design governance, and technical strategy of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based platforms. This role spans pre-sales, delivery, and operations to define scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures aligned to customer outcomes on the Australia East Coast, with VMware VCF components including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and the Aria Suite.

What You'll Do

• Own the overall architecture for VMware Cloud Foundation platforms, translating business and non-functional requirements into robust, scalable designs.
• Define reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for VCF-based private and hybrid cloud environments.
• Lead high-level and low-level design reviews, ensuring architectural alignment with VMware best practices and customer strategy.
• Act as the design authority throughout the project lifecycle, approving architecture decisions and managing technical risk; provide architectural oversight during implementation to ensure solutions are delivered as designed.
• Lead technical escalations and complex design decisions involving performance, availability, security, and scalability.
• Engage with senior customer stakeholders to articulate architectural vision, trade-offs, and roadmap alignment; support pre-sales activities including solution shaping, architecture workshops, and technical assurance.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to customers on cloud transformation, platform modernization, and automation strategy.
• Define platform evolution and lifecycle strategy, including upgrades, capacity planning, and future-state architectures; drive automation practices using VMware Aria Suite and Infrastructure as Code principles.

What We're Looking For

• Extensive experience (10+ years) designing and architecting enterprise VMware platforms in production environments.
• Deep expertise in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including full-stack architecture across compute, storage, networking, and management layers.
• Strong architectural knowledge of vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Aria Suite (Automation, Operations, Lifecycle).
• Proven experience defining enterprise-grade architectures with high availability, resilience, security, and performance as core design principles.
• Strong understanding of automation and orchestration, including VMware Aria, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to present architecture to executive and technical audiences.
• Architecture experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; strong grounding in networking, storage, and security architecture within VMware environments.
• Experience applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps-aligned operational models.
• VMware certifications such as VCF 9 Admin, VCF 9 Architect, VCAP or VCDX are required.