Senior Systems Architect - VMware, SDDC, Infrastructure & Cloud

About the Position

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Systems Architect to join our consulting practice. In this client-facing role, you will advise enterprise and regulated-industry customers on the modernization and transformation of their cloud, data center, virtualization, and infrastructure platforms.

You will lead architecture engagements spanning Microsoft Azure, hybrid cloud, software-defined data centers, VMware-based private cloud, and on-premises infrastructure, helping clients modernize legacy estates while ensuring resilience, security, governance, and operational continuity.

You will act as a trusted advisor to CIOs, infrastructure leaders, and transformation programs, shaping both strategy and delivery across complex enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead current-state assessments, discovery workshops, and target-state architecture definition
• Translate business, security, compliance, and resilience requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Facilitate architecture workshops with engineering teams, infrastructure leaders, and executive audiences
• Provide architectural governance aligned to enterprise standards and regulatory expectations
• Design Microsoft Azure landing zones, governance models, connectivity patterns, and operational guardrails
• Architect hybrid cloud solutions integrating Azure with on-premises infrastructure, identity platforms, and security controls
• Design SDDC architectures across compute, storage, network virtualization, backup, DR, and management domains
• Govern VMware-based private cloud architectures, including vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, vSAN, HCX, SRM, and Aria/vRealize Suite
• Lead modernization and migration initiatives across Azure, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and hybrid environments
• Produce high-level and low-level design documentation, architecture decision records, and migration strategies
• Provide architectural oversight across deployment, migration, and stabilization phases
• Act as senior escalation point for critical platform design and implementation challenges
• Support migration planning for workloads moving into Azure, AVS, hybrid cloud, or modernized on-premises environments
• Support RFP/RFI/RFQ responses with solution design, architecture inputs, and scope framing
• Contribute to effort estimation, proposal development, and delivery planning
• Identify follow-on opportunities in cloud adoption, infrastructure modernization, and operational improvement

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure architecture, virtualization, SDDC, and consulting
• Proven background in enterprise transformation and modernization programs
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure, including landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, governance, identity, security, and resilience
• Skills in hybrid cloud architecture integrating Azure with on-premises platforms and enterprise identity
• Proficiency in VMware technologies: vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, NSX, vSAN, HCX, SRM, and Aria/vRealize Suite
• Knowledge of SDDC, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV, as well as hyperconverged infrastructure platforms
• Competency in Azure VMware Solution (AVS), workload mobility, and platform transformation
• Understanding of enterprise storage, backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery
• Background in network, security, identity, and governance for enterprise platform architecture
• Showcase of designing solutions for regulated, high-availability, and mission-critical environments within financial services, public sector, or healthcare
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, or Ansible
• Strategic thinking combined with strong delivery awareness, ownership mindset, consulting maturity, relevant certifications, and willingness to travel to clients
• English language proficiency at an Advanced level (C1)

Nice to Have

• Experience with Amazon Web Services

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a hybrid model
• Professional development opportunities
• Travel opportunities to client sites

About the Company

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