Senior Technical Architect

Redcentric | Architect / Senior Architect - VMware

Location:

Home based (UK Only)
Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced VMware Architect or Senior VMware Architect to provide architecture leadership, design authority and technical assurance across Redcentric’s VMware based private cloud and managed service capabilities.

The role will focus on the architecture, evolution and governance of VMware platforms, with particular emphasis on VMware Cloud Foundation, VCF 9+ private cloud operating models, multi-tenant service architectures, advanced networking and security, and modern platform capabilities such as Kubernetes enabled workloads, self-service automation and Private AI. The successful candidate will help define secure, scalable and operationally supportable architectures that can be delivered consistently within a managed service environment.

Depending on experience, the successful candidate may operate either as a domain-focused VMware Architect or as a Senior VMware Architect with broader responsibility for cross-domain coherence, architecture strategy, governance, roadmap influence and architectural assurance across multiple products, platforms or major technology domains.

Architecture and Design Authority

• Own or contribute to the architectural direction for VMware-based product and service capabilities, ensuring designs are secure, supportable, scalable and aligned to Redcentric’s managed service model.
• Translate customer, product, operational, commercial and security requirements into conceptual, logical and physical architectures.
• Ensure architecture designs align to AMPRS principles:
  Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, Scalability and Security.
• Provide design assurance, challenge, approval or escalation for architectural decisions, exceptions, risks and cross-domain dependencies.

VMware Cloud Foundation and Private Cloud Architecture

• Design and assure VMware private cloud platforms based on VMware Cloud Foundation, including management domains, workload domains, VCF Management Services, VCF Operations, VCF Automation, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VMware Cloud Director and associated VMware/Broadcom platform services.
• Develop enterprise topology designs covering vSAN stretched clusters, multi-site network fabrics, distributed fault domains, recoverability patterns, platform scalability and fleet management structures.
• Shape VCF 9+ operating models that support self-service consumption, lifecycle management, platform governance, service catalogues, automation and operational readiness.
• Support migration, modernisation and evolution of VMware services in line with product strategy, technology roadmaps and managed service requirements.

Multi-Tenant and Managed Service Design

• Architect enterprise multi-tenant service models, including provider and tenant boundaries, delegated administration, role-based access, resource allocation, service catalogues and operational control models.
• Design identity federation models using OIDC, external identity providers and VMware Identity Broker where appropriate.
• Define secure network isolation models using VPCs, NSX, vDefend Distributed Firewall and micro-segmentation to support both traditional VM and modern platform workloads.
• Contribute to productised, repeatable managed service patterns aligned to the service catalogue, operational handover model, lifecycle ownership and commercial viability.

Security, Sovereignty and Governance

• Design security architectures across vSphere, vSAN, NSX and vDefend, incorporating Zero Trust principles, secure configuration and protection against lateral movement.
• Define sovereign and regulated platform controls, including data residency, geo-fencing, compliance guardrails, audit…