VCF Private Cloud Lead Consultant

CO1003 CDW Technologies, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 138,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Benefits overview

Job summary

CDW is seeking a Managing Consultant to design, deploy, and optimize private cloud infrastructure built on VCF 9.0. You will act as a technical expert across compute, storage, and networking, guiding architects, leads, and delivery teams to ensure solutions meet requirements and receive customer approval.

You will collaborate on training plans, develop best practices, and evaluate strategies balancing customer goals with technical and financial considerations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field with 7+ years IT infrastructure experience or 11 years total IT experience with 7 years infra and 3 years in large enterprise consulting.
• 7+ years of enterprise virtualization and/or private cloud architecture experience.
• Hands-on with VCF 9.0 Automation deployments.
• Proficient in deploying VCF Operations components (standalone/high-availability, dashboards/alerts, costing).
• Experience with SDDC Manager BOM management and async patch workflows.
• Able to mentor engineers and build strong client relationships.
• Strong communication and ability to present complex tech concepts to customers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Technical Architect on training plans and implementation approaches.
• Develop standards, best practices, and technical training materials with architects and leads.
• Evaluate strategies balancing customer goals, requirements, and cost.
• Provide technical guidance on solution design and implementation to customers and internal teams.
• Identify and communicate technical risks, options, and recommendations.
• Ensure procedures and designs are followed and assist with issue resolution.
• Interface with customer teams and stakeholders to align expectations.
• Mentor engineers and consultants by sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Size, design, and deploy VCF Operations environments.
• Define cloud operating model standards including RBAC, tagging, and capacity management.

Skills

Virtualization

Cloud architecture

VCF 9.0

Automation tooling

Mentoring

Client relationships

Communication

Travel willingness

Python/Ansible/Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

VCDX/VCP-VCF

Job description

CDW is seeking a Managing Consultant to design, deploy, and optimize private cloud infrastructure built on VCF 9.0. You will act as a technical expert across compute, storage, and networking, guiding architects, leads, and delivery teams to ensure solutions meet requirements and receive customer approval.

You will collaborate on training plans, develop best practices, and evaluate strategies balancing customer goals with technical and financial considerations.