SC Cleared VMware Consultant (VCD)

Vmware Consultant

SC Cleared

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 clients. 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 datacenter.
• 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 (eg, 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 (see below)