NSX AVI - Architect

Tekgence Inc

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Tekgence Inc. seeks an experienced NSX Architect to lead the design and end-to-end implementation of the VMware Avi Load Balancer within a VCF 9.1 private cloud for a large financial organization.

You will drive modernization of application delivery across VPCs, NSX, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and VM workloads. This role blends deep Avi configuration and automation with strong stakeholder leadership, guiding executives and technical teams through complex digital transformations and ensuring

Qualifications

8+ years VMware experience and architecture leadership required.
Hands-on training in VCF 9.x; strong knowledge of VCF components.
Strong communication and presentation skills for executive audiences; stakeholder guiding ability.
Familiarity with VMware 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

VMware Experience

VCF 9.x hands-on

NSX design

vSphere architecture

VKS / automation

Hybrid cloud experience

BGP & OSPF routing

Executive communication

Design leadership

Legacy NSX migration

Job description

Scope: 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

Description and Overview

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.

Key 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.

Required Skills & Experience

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.

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