Principal Consulting Engineer - VMware Cloud Foundation Operations

About this role

The Principal Consulting Engineer ensures solutions are delivered as designed and meet customer approval. We are seeking an experienced VMware Cloud Foundation Architect to design, deploy, and optimize private cloud infrastructure built on VCF 9.0. This role serves as the technical authority for our software-defined data center strategy, driving standardization and automation across compute, storage, and networking management layers.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with the technical architect on training plans and approaches to best equipped staff for successful implementations. Develop standards, best practices and training for team members along with technical architect and technical lead in their area of expertise.
• Define project strategies or technical options to balance customer project goals and financial constraints. Provide leadership and expert advice/counsel on technical subject matters and architecture design to Customers, the Infrastructure Solutions Team, and other Extended Sirius Teams.
• Escalate and communicate alternatives with associated risks with executives and stakeholders.  Ensure procedures are being followed and assist in resolving complex problems which require professional level input.
• Regularly interface with customer’s technical and business executive level and project leadership through sales presentations and/or client project solutions in communicating complex ideas, anticipating potential objections and leading discussions to align expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Size, design, and deploy VCF Ops deployments
• Define and enforce cloud operating model standards including RBAC, tagging taxonomy, and capacity management
• Develop VCF Ops components such as dashboards, groups, alerts, costing models, actions, etc.
• Produce HLD/LLD documentation, runbooks, and architectural decision records (ADRs)
• Provide technical governance and mentorship to delivery teams

What we expect of you:

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