VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Consultant

Project overview

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

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Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: England, UK, GB