Senior Staff Engineer - VCF Lead Architect

We are a Digital Product Engineering company that is scaling in a big way! We build products, services, and experiences that inspire, excite, and delight. We work at scale — across all devices and digital mediums, and our people exist everywhere in the world (15000+ experts across 26 countries, to be exact). Our work culture is dynamic and non-hierarchical. We are looking for great new colleagues. That is where you come in! We are looking for a VCF Lead Architect to lead enterprise VMware modernization engagements, moving large vSphere 8 environments to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x. You will own the technical direction, define target architectures and migration roadmaps, and act as the lead technical advisor to client stakeholders. Key Responsibilities - Assess multi-vCenter vSphere 8 environments, including Enhanced Linked Mode, Distributed Switch readiness and blockers to VCF adoption. - Evaluate identity changes (Integrated Windows Authentication to LDAPS) and third-party backup compatibility with VCF. - Produce compatibility baselines, risk registers and phased migration roadmaps. - Define target-state ESXi boot and lifecycle architecture, including Auto Deploy, vSphere Lifecycle Manager images and UEFI HTTPS Boot. - Guide client teams in designing and validating VCF lab environments (Holodeck), covering NSX, VCF Operations and lifecycle workflows. - Lead client workshops, present findings to technical and leadership audiences, and review the work of other engineers on the team.Required Skills - Hands-on VMware Cloud Foundation experience (VCF 5.x or later): SDDC Manager, management and workload domains, lifecycle management. - Strong vSphere 8 architecture skills: vCenter, ESXi, ELM, DRS/HA, EVC and VDS. - Working knowledge of NSX, VCF Operations (Aria Operations) and Active Directory over LDAPS. - Proven experience writing assessment reports, architecture designs and migration roadmaps. - Excellent communication skills in English for client-facing work. Good to Have - Exposure to VCF 9.x or VMware Holodeck. - Auto Deploy and stateless ESXi at scale. - Experience with Rubrik or similar backup platforms. - Experience in multi-vCenter consolidation projects. Must have skills: ESXi & LDAP, VMware, vSphere 8