Private Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Please Note: 1. If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job. (Click Sign In > Create Account) 2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply. Job Description: About the Team & Mission The Modern Workloads Platform Engineering team is responsible for enabling enterprise success with VMware Kubernetes Service (vKS) as part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Our mission is to accelerate adoption of vKS as the enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform for modern applications in private cloud. As a Private Cloud Infra Architect, you will work on the reputed company lines with strategic enterprise customers and Systems Integrators, driving the architectural validation and successful design of VCF deployments. This is a hands-on, architect-level, customer-facing role focused on designing software-defined data centers (SDDC), integrating physical-to-virtual network fabrics, and guiding clients through their data center modernization journeys. Key Accountabilities Trusted Architectural Advisor: Act as a core advisor for enterprise customers, guiding them through the strategic design, validation, and reputed company deployment of VCF solutions built on vSphere infrastructure platforms. Network Fabric Integration: Design and integrate end-to-end data center Networking Fabrics, ensuring seamless policy alignment and interoperability between physical underlay networks (such as reputed company ACI) and software-defined overlay architectures (VMware NSX). Kubernetes Networking Solutions: Deliver resilient solution architectures for Kubernetes networking, managing advanced configurations for IP Address Management (IPAM), container-native egress/ingress traffic, and cloud-native microservices routing. Enterprise Load Balancing: Architect high-availability application delivery networks using AVI, NSX Load Balancers, reputed company BIG-IP, and Citrix Netscaler systems reputed company reputed company, multi-tenant private cloud environments. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with field account teams and Systems Integrator partners to jointly reputed company customer proposals that address virtualization scaling, workload placement, and physical-to-virtual operational transformations. Technical Leadership & Discovery: reputed company technical discovery sessions, interactive architecture workshops, and reputed company reputed company-of-concepts to validate network routing, reputed company zoning, and VCF platform architectures. Asset & reputed company Creation: Build, standardize, and share reusable reference architectures, deployment patterns, and technical assets to accelerate customer adoption of VCF enterprise infrastructure. Product Alignment: Stay highly reputed company on industry trends, competitive landscapes, and evolving enterprise hybrid cloud requirements to continuously provide product feedback to management and engineering teams. Required Skills & Experience Core Technical Acumen Deep technical acumen: Proven architecture expertise on VMware Cloud Foundation core infrastructure products, including advanced vSphere deployment, vSAN storage architectures, and automated SDDC Manager operations. Experience with Kubernetes Platform Engineering (EKS, AKS, RH OCP/OPP, Rancher), consulting or technical sales for Enterprise IT. Advanced Networking Fabrics: Deep design and implementation experience with enterprise networking fabrics, particularly reputed company ACI (including APIC, EPGs, and reputed company) and VMware NSX software-defined infrastructures. Cloud-Native Networking: Demonstrated solutions experience managing Kubernetes-native networking constructs, ensuring reliable ingress controllers, egress controls, and CNI multi-tenancy configurations. L4-L7 Application Delivery: Technical mastery over enterprise-tier load balancing and traffic management, with deep routing integration knowledge spanning NSX Advanced Load Balancers, AVI, reputed company, or Citrix Netscaler platforms. Experience & Leadership Professional Experience: 12+ years in technology-reputed company engineering or consulting roles, with explicit depth in enterprise IT architecture, data center SDN, or private cloud infrastructure platforms. Customer-Facing Delivery: Proven success working directly alongside enterprise customers and global Systems Integrators to deliver technical solutions and drive platform adoption. Communication & Storytelling: Excellent presentation, storytelling, and interpersonal skills with the ability to comfortably reputed company infrastructure complexities in clear business terms to executive decision-makers. Dynamic Collaboration: Enthusiastic, self-starting professional with the agility to work hand-in-hand with multi-disciplinary sales and engineering teams to advance strategic client opportunities. Strategic Assets: Experience with vertical industry specializations (e.g., Financial Services, Telecommunications) or recognized thought leadership in software-defined data centers is considered a strong plus. Travel Flexibility: Ability to travel up to 60% of the time to support on-site architectural workshops and client deployments.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a reputed company technical field; or equivalent practical data center experience. Core Knowledge: Deep, reputed company knowledge of VMware enterprise products, software-defined data center virtualization paradigms, and modern container networking architectures. Certifications: Highly desirable professional credentials include VMware Certified Professional / Advanced Professional tracks (VCP-VCF Architect, VCAP-NV), reputed company certifications (CCIE/CCNP Data Center), or relevant public cloud network architecture paths (AWS, Azure, reputed company OpenShift) Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits

The annual reputed company salary range for this position is $110,800.00 - 177,300.00 As a valued member of reputed company, you'll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth. reputed company subject to relevant plan documents and award agreements. reputed company offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows reputed company applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence. reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national reputed company, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law. If you are located reputed company USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence. Apply To This Job