NSX AVI - Architect

Role: NSX AVI Architect
Skillset: NSX | AVI
Remote: Yes
Effort (Hours): 816
Scope: Lead the strategic design and end-to-end implementation of the VMware Avi Load Balancer within a VCF 9.1 private cloud environment within a large financial organization. You will serve as the primary delivery consultant for modernizing application delivery, ensuring seamless integration across Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), NSX networking, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and VM workload environments. This role requires a balance of deep technical mastery in Avi configuration and automation, along with exceptional soft skills to guide stakeholders through complex digital transformations
Description and Overview
The NSX Architect will work directly with customers and the VCF Architect to understand business requirements, and design network architecture that supports the design requirements of VCF. This role focuses on high-level and low-level solution architecture and design leadership, ensuring that deployments align with VMware best practices and customer goals.
Key Responsibilities
Lead design workshops and discovery sessions with customer stakeholders.
Develop architecture diagrams, business requirements, high-level, low-level designs for NSX
Provide input to transformation roadmaps and migration strategies from legacy NSX or other legacy network models
Collaborate with oversight architects, consultants, project managers, and partner teams to ensure designs are executed effectively
Review and approve design artifacts, ensuring alignment with VMware reference architectures.
Act as a trusted advisor to customer executives and technical leads.
Required Skills & Experience
8+ years VMware experience
Hands-on experience designing NSX Architecture
Training in VCF 9 (hands-on preferred).
Deep technical knowledge of VCF, including vSphere architecture, NSX, vSAN, VCF Automation,VCF Operations and VKS.
Strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.
Hybrid cloud experience (VMC on AWS, or Azure VMware Solution, or Google Cloud VMware Engine).
Physical fabric integration experience to include EVPN
Strong knowledge of routing protocols including BGP and OSPF
Understanding of highly available architectures, container networking and network convergence
Familiarity with VCF Suite, containerization, and enterprise automation strategies.
Certifications
VMware Cloud Foundation Architect (2V0-13.25)
Skills Checklist
Core Design Capabilities
Multi-region and multi-site NSX design
Workload domain strategy and segregation
Customer Engagement
Customer-facing discovery and design workshops
Discussing design tradeoffs and alternatives
Executive and technical stakeholder presentations
Trusted advisor relationship building
Requirements & Documentation
Translate business requirements into technical requirements
Document risks and design decisions
Capture functional and non-functional requirements
Create high-level and low-level design documents
Develop architecture diagrams and deployment blueprints
Migration & Lifecycle
Legacy networks to NSX migration strategies
Upgrade and lifecycle planning
Technical Knowledge
VCF 9.0 architecture and new capabilities
VCF 5x and 9x hands-on experience
VCF Operations integration
VMware validated solutions and reference architectures
Collaboration
Work with consultants, project managers, and partners
Design review and approval processes
Cross-team coordination and alignment

Work arrangement
Yes