Expert Aria Automation

Project overview

Context

Expert VMware Aria Automation to industrialize the infrastructure offering catalog of its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) base, in Infrastructure as Code and GitOps mode.

2 Data Centers, supplemented by VKS Kubernetes clusters.

Missions

The service covers Aria Automation components of the VCF stack and their integrations with the existing ecosystem:

Architecture Requirements

Description

The service covers four aspects, from the GitOps base of the platform to the MCO of the platform.

Aria Automation Platform as-code

Design and development of catalog offerings

Integrations and meta-orchestration

Governance, SRE

Skills

The profile sought is a confirmed Aria Automation expert with production catalogs, capable of making it a managed as-code platform.

Functional skills:

Working Conditions

• Reduce environment provisioning time by replacing manual steps with end-to-end Service Broker catalog offerings.
• Manage all Aria Automation content (cloud templates, Orchestrator workflows and actions, ABX, custom resources, policies) as versioned code in Git, promoted by pipeline between environments.
• Standardize and automatically control tagging, naming, security, and compliance at the source, within templates and policies.
• Ensure traceability of each action (ITSM, CMDB, monitoring) and reliability of offerings (SLO per offering).
• Prepare the roadmap towards VCF 9 and VCF Automation.
• Cloud templates YAML, cloud zones, projects, mappings (flavor, image, network, storage), capacity and constraint tags
• Offering catalog, custom forms, approval policies, lease policies, Day-2 policies, and quotas
• Workflows, actions (JavaScript, Python, PowerShell), plugins, versioned packages
• Event Broker (subscriptions), ABX, custom resources, and resource actions for non-VM offerings
• Aria Automation hosts the catalog, governance, and orchestration of the VCF stack.
• API-first. Each offering must be consumable via the Service Broker API or the Terraform provider, not just the portal. It must be callable by a future declarative control plane (GitOps Kubernetes).
• VCF 9 compatibility. Design choices will be validated and arbitrated against the VCF Automation VM Apps model initially, then All Apps.
• Implementation of the Aria content lifecycle: Git repositories, development, qualification, and production environments, promotion via Azure DevOps pipeline.
• Automated testing of cloud templates and workflows before promotion (schema validation, test deployments, non-regression).
• Definition of project structure, cloud zones, mappings, and policies, versioned and reproducible.
• Day-1 offerings: standardized VMs, Kubernetes clusters, databases, firewall rules...
• Non-VM offerings modeled as custom resources, with their Day-2 actions.
• Day-2 actions: patching, resizing, disk extension, snapshot, decommissioning.
• Service Broker policies: approvals, quotas, leases, Day-2 rights per profile.
• Onboarding of services provided by other teams (OS, network, security, DB, middleware, ...) as reusable components.
• ITSM/CMDB EasyVista integration: creation and closure of changes, update of CIs.
• Integration or rationalization of existing automations into the target orchestration model.
• Traceability and post-action: recording in monitoring (Zabbix, Dynatrace), notifications, execution reports.
• Tagging, naming, security, and compliance standards, enforced in templates and policies.
• Automated controls: drift detection between Git and the platform, deployment compliance, secret management.
• Measurement of SLO per offering (success rate, provisioning duration), with a dashboard.
• Maintenance in operational conditions of the orchestration chain during the service.
• Support for teams integrating their application pipelines with the platform.
• Aria Automation (Assembler, Service Broker): Expert, mandatory
• Aria Automation Orchestrator: Expert, mandatory
• Aria Extensibility: Expert, mandatory
• VCF, vSphere, NSX: Confirmed, mandatory
• VCF Automation (VCF 9): Confirmed, appreciated
• Cross-functional work with security, network, DB, middleware, storage, architecture, and development teams.
• Clear and maintainable documentation by an internal team.
• Mastery of SRE (SLO, error budget), DevOps (CI/CD, shift-left), and ITIL (incidents, changes, problems) practices for integration into operations.
• A VMware certification on Aria Automation or VCF is appreciated.
• Daily Rate: €660
• Location: Paris
• Remote Work: 2 days per week

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Paris, France, FR
• Rate: 83-83 EUR/h
• Languages: French