- SC Clearance essential.
- 5 days a week on site in Manchester.
Our client, a well-established VMware Partner and professional services organisation, is seeking a VMware Consultant to join their team.
This role requires SC clearance and a commitment to working on-site five days a week. This role involves the end-to-end delivery of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and other modern platform technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, install, and configure the base infrastructure platform within a single data center.
- Deploy a full VCF topology, including: Up to two VCF instances (logical separation). Up to six Workload Domains, tailored for application and service segregation.
- Deploy and configure VMware Cloud Director (vCD) to enable multi-tenancy and service abstraction.
- Implement full security hardening of the platform in line with best practices.
- Perform end-to-end validation of the deployed platform and document results in the validation workbook.
- Ensure all infrastructure is delivered as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling portability, reusability, and cloud-agnostic design.
- Support hybrid cloud integration and edge compute considerations as part of the architecture.
- Enable shared services and template sharing between domains while maintaining logical isolation.
- Ensure support for federated identity, single sign-on, and zero-trust access models.
Required Experience & Skills:
- Active SC Clearance (essential).
- Proven experience deploying VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including Management and Workload Domains.
- Strong hands-on experience with: VMware vSphere / vSAN / NSX-T VMware Cloud Director (vCD) and VCF Lifecycle Manager.
- Deep understanding of logical segmentation of workloads, infrastructure security hardening and automation and IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI).
- Experience working with cloud-native principles, hybrid environments, and multi-domain architecture.
- Comfortable working in secure environments.
- Full-time availability for onsite work in Manchester.
Apply today or email:
Lydia.wills@church-int.com
