VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Consultant

We're partnering with a leading global IT services provider undergoing significant growth across its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) practice and capability to design, deliver, and modernise enterprise private cloud platforms on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x.

As a consultant, you'll lead end-to-end engagements, shaping architectures, hands on builds, lifecycle automation, and migrations while producing high-quality artefacts.

With a strong pipeline of secured work, this opportunity offers long-term contract stability, exposure to cutting-edge VCF 5.x and VCF 9 environments, and the chance to work on modern hybrid cloud platforms and automation-led infrastructure.

6-month contract

UK-based remote role with some travel to customer sites

Inside IR35

Required Skills & Experience

• VMware Cloud Foundation 5 skills and experience or above
• Deep VCF design/build/operate experience
• Strong NSX (T0/T1, DFW, VRFs, EVPN), vSAN (ESA/OSA)
• Automation with Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs
• Observability with Aria Ops/Ops for Networks/Logs
• Migration experience with HCX
• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder engagement

Responsibilities

• Lead assessments and define future state VCF 9.x architectures
• Produce HLD/LLD, implementation plans, and operational runbooks
• Own VCF bring up, SDDC Manager config, lifecycle & compliance
• Engineer NSX, vSAN, workload domain builds
• VCF Operations design, config and analysis
• Execute migrations using HCX/vMotion
• Automate day 0/1/2 operations with Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI
• Enable modern workloads such as VKS and platform guardrails

Preferred Skills

• Kubernetes on vSphere (VKS)
• DR tooling (SRM, VCDR)
• VMware Cloud (VMC on AWS, AVS)
• Avi load balancing, Aria Suite Lifecycle

Desired Certifications

• VCP-Cloud Foundation 9.x
• VCAP NV/DCV welcomed
• NSX Specialist/VCF Specialist badges
• SC/DV clearance beneficial for some projects