NSX AVI - Architect
Tekgence Inc
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Job summary
Tekgence Inc. seeks an NSX Architect to lead end-to-end VMware NSX-based design within a VCF 9.1 private cloud for a large financial organization.
You will guide strategic transformation, align with VPC, NSX, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and VM workloads while balancing deep Avi/VCF expertise with stakeholder leadership. You will drive architecture, governance, and blueprint development, collaborating with client executives and delivery teams to ensure VMware best practices are followed and value
Qualifications
- 8+ years VMware experience.
- Training in VCF 9 (hands-on preferred).
- Deep technical knowledge of VCF, including vSphere architecture, NSX, vSAN, VCF Automation, VCF Operations and VKS.
- Strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- Hybrid cloud experience (VMC on AWS, or Azure VMware Solution, or Google Cloud VMware Engine).
- Physical fabric integration experience to include EVPN
- Strong knowledge of routing protocols including BGP and OSPF
- Understanding of highly available architectures, container networking and network convergence
- Familiarity with VCF Suite, containerization, and enterprise automation strategies.
Responsibilities
- Lead design workshops and discovery sessions with customer stakeholders.
- Provide input to transformation roadmaps and migration strategies from legacy NSX or other legacy network models
- Collaborate with oversight architects, consultants, project managers, and partner teams to ensure designs are executed effectively
- Review and approve design artifacts, ensuring alignment with VMware reference architectures.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customer executives and technical leads.
Skills
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Job description
Lead the strategic design and end-to-end implementation of the VMware Avi Load Balancer within a VCF 9.1 private cloud environment within a large financial organization. You will serve as the primary delivery consultant for modernizing application delivery, ensuring seamless integration across Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), NSX networking, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and VM workload environments. This role requires a balance of deep technical mastery in Avi configuration and automation, along with exceptional soft skills to guide stakeholders through complex digital transformations
The NSX Architect will work directly with customers and the VCF Architect to understand business requirements, and design network architecture that supports the design requirements of VCF. This role focuses on high-level and low-level solution architecture and design leadership, ensuring that deployments align with VMware best practices and customer goals.
- Lead design workshops and discovery sessions with customer stakeholders.
- Provide input to transformation roadmaps and migration strategies from legacy NSX or other legacy network models
- Collaborate with oversight architects, consultants, project managers, and partner teams to ensure designs are executed effectively
- Review and approve design artifacts, ensuring alignment with VMware reference architectures.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customer executives and technical leads.
- 8+ years VMware experience
- Training in VCF 9 (hands-on preferred).
- Deep technical knowledge of VCF, including vSphere architecture, NSX, vSAN, VCF Automation,VCF Operations and VKS.
- Strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- Hybrid cloud experience (VMC on AWS, or Azure VMware Solution, or Google Cloud VMware Engine).
- Physical fabric integration experience to include EVPN
- Strong knowledge of routing protocols including BGP and OSPF
- Understanding of highly available architectures, container networking and network convergence
- Familiarity with VCF Suite, containerization, and enterprise automation strategies.
- VMware Cloud Foundation Architect (2V0-13.25)
- Multi-region and multi-site NSX design
- Workload domain strategy and segregation
- Customer-facing discovery and design workshops
- Discussing design tradeoffs and alternatives
- Executive and technical stakeholder presentations
- Trusted advisor relationship building
- Translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Document risks and design decisions
- Capture functional and non-functional requirements
- Create high-level and low-level design documents
- Develop architecture diagrams and deployment blueprints
- Legacy networks to NSX migration strategies
- Upgrade and lifecycle planning
- VCF 9.0 architecture and new capabilities
- VCF 5x and 9x hands-on experience
- VCF Operations integration
- VMware validated solutions and reference architectures
- Work with consultants, project managers, and partners
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