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Software engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Type
- Full time
- Compensation
- $150k-$200k
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Join a team building useful software. Work closely with engineering and design to turn new ideas into products.
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Senior Staff Engineer - VCF Lead Architect
- Location
- Guadalajara
- Type
- Full time
- Posted
- 18H AGO
About the role
Company Description
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!
Job Description
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.
Qualifications
Must have skills: ESXi & LDAP, VMware, vSphere 8
Additional Information
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