VMWare Architect

VMWare Architect - DV Cleared

+ 3-6 month contract + extensions

+ Bracknell/London based

+ DV Cleared role

+ understanding all components of VCF

Required VMWare architect who can develop existing high level designs into a solution that meets all customer requirements, initially as part of a proposal team then moving into design, build and deliver. The applicant will have an excellent understanding of a large proportion of the requirements below.

Required

• Understanding of all components of VCF this includes: SDDC manager, vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T and vRealize Suite.

• Excellent understanding of VMware vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure

• Excellent Understanding of vCenter Server architecture

• Experience in Managing vCenter Server Appliance and Platform services controller appliance

• Experience in VM migration from vSphere 5.x to 7.x

• Knowledge in working with VMware vCenter Converter tool

• vRealize Automation - Blue printing IAAS, Day 2 management.

• Experience in working with content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine

• Previous experience in Configuring and managing vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client and VMware vSphere Client

• Experience in working with vCenter Server storages: VMware vSphere VMFS, NFS, iSCS

• Experience in managing virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots

• Knowledge of how virtual machines vMotion and virtual machine Storage vMotion works

• Experience in managing resource pools

• Good understanding of VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) and cluster architecture

• Managing vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance

• Knowledge of VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler to improve host scalability

• Experience in working with VMware vSphere® Update Manager to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations

• Excellent Knowledge of NSX-T components and their function in the infrastructure

• Excellent understanding of VMware NSX-T technologies and automation concepts

• Deploy and Configure NSX-T components for management, control plane and data plane

• Good understanding and knowledge of NSX layer 2 networking

• Deploy and Configure logical switch networks

• Deploy and configure NSX L2 bridging

• Integration of 3rd party appliances into an SDN environment

• Deploy and Configure all main features of the NSX Edge services gateway such as load balancing

• Design and Configure NSX Edge Firewall rules to restrict network traffic both North/South and East/West

• Design and implement micro-segmentation using NSX distributed Firewall

• Excellent Network administration and troubleshooting skills