VMware & VCF Architect - Hybrid Cloud & Automation Lead

Centurion; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Centurion seeks a Virtualization SME to lead VMware-based SDDC architecture, including VCF domains, vSphere clusters, vSAN, and NSX networking. The role oversees migrations, DR planning with JetStream, and lifecycle management across domains.

Ideal candidates will have 10+ years of virtualization leadership, VCF experience, and expertise integrating APIs for IaC within CI/CD pipelines, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and evolution of VMware-based SDDC environments, including VCF domains, vSphere clusters, vSAN, and NSX networking.
• Plan and execute workload migrations across environments, including data center migrations, adoption, and workload rebalancing.
• Integrate site-to-site recovery strategy using JetStream, including supporting disaster recovery runbooks, tabletop exercises, failover/failback processes, and recovery validation.
• Plan and coordinate VCF lifecycle management activities, including patching, upgrades, and bundle management across domains.
• Lead recurring performance and capacity planning across compute, storage, and network layers, ensuring efficient resource utilization and future scalability.
• Design and implement network segmentation and micro-segmentation using NSX, aligned to Zero Trust and security requirements.
• Define and manage infrastructure service offerings, including customization profiles and service catalog capabilities within VCF (or equivalent SDDC abstractions).
• Lead complex troubleshooting across the full stack (compute, storage, network, and virtualization layers), including performance degradation and stability issues.
• Oversee and enhance backup and recovery solutions to ensure data protection, integrity, and availability.
• Establish and maintain automation patterns for provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure security and compliance through patching, configuration management, and integration with enterprise security controls.
• Maintain authoritative documentation for architecture, configurations, and operational procedures.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering and operations teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to the platform and operating model.

Skills

Virtualization leadership

VMware administration

Hyper-V administration

VCF experience

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field

Tools

VMware vSphere

NSX

vSAN

VCF tooling

APIs integration

Job description

Centurion seeks a Virtualization SME to lead VMware-based SDDC architecture, including VCF domains, vSphere clusters, vSAN, and NSX networking. The role oversees migrations, DR planning with JetStream, and lifecycle management across domains.

Ideal candidates will have 10+ years of virtualization leadership, VCF experience, and expertise integrating APIs for IaC within CI/CD pipelines, delivering secure, scalable infrastructure.