Cleared Professional Services – Solution Architect Location

Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra or Melbourne Working Arrangement

Hybrid working arrangements. You may be required on customer site. Some travel may be required.

Clearance

Required

Australian citizens with an existing clearance or the ability to obtain one are strongly preferred.

Company

Overview

Cleared Professional Services delivers specialist consulting, architecture and engineering capability across Defence, National Security and regulated environments.

Our Sovereign Cloud

Practice focuses on VMware Cloud Foundation and sovereign cloud architectures, supporting customers with secure, compliant and high performing private cloud platforms. We provide deep technical expertise, structured delivery, and defensible architectural outcomes aligned to mission and regulatory requirements.

We are seeking an Architect to lead the design of VMware Cloud Foundation and sovereign cloud solutions. This role translates customer requirements, constraints and operational needs into coherent architectures, ensuring alignment between design intent, implementation approach and customer outcomes. The Architect stays close to delivery, guiding consultants, defending design decisions, identifying risks early and contributing reusable patterns back into the practice.

The role offers a defined growth path into specialist NSX and VKS architecture positions. Duties and Responsibilities

Lead technical discovery, design analysis and architecture development for VCF and sovereign cloud engagements

Translate business, security, operational, regulatory and technical requirements into practical VCF architecture outcomes

Own high level and low level designs, decision records, assumptions, risks, constraints and design traceability





Define implementation guardrails to ensure delivery teams build against approved architecture

Lead customer workshops, design reviews, governance sessions and architecture walkthroughs

Identify design risks, delivery risks, dependency gaps, scope concerns and commercial impacts

Support consultants during implementation, troubleshooting, design clarification and operational handover

Contribute reusable reference architectures, patterns, standards and lessons learned

Mentor consultants on design intent, delivery patterns and quality expectations Education/Certifications Required

4+ years hands on VMware platform experience

Recent experience with VCF 9 or VCF 5.2 / vSphere 8 in production or delivery contexts

Experience designing or delivering VCF environments end to end Knowledge/Skills Required

Strong experience across vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and NSX

Understanding of single region and multi region VCF design considerations

Experience with upgrades and migrations across VCF and vSphere versions

Experience leading or operating as senior technical resource on private cloud or regulated environment engagements

Experience running customer discovery, design, validation and governance workshops

Strong documentation capability including designs, decision records, risks and operational considerations

Ability to design for constraints not fully covered by reference architectures

Experience supporting implementation teams through design clarification and troubleshooting





Experience working in structured delivery environments with scope boundaries, design review and formal acceptance

Ability to engage directly with senior customer technical stakeholders Highly Desirable

Specialist depth in NSX networking or VKS / Kubernetes platform services

NSX design for VCF including routing, segmentation, multi tenancy, load balancing and multi site considerations

VKS and Kubernetes platform services including Supervisor, namespaces, RBAC, ingress, registry, certificate and DNS services Desirable

Infrastructure automation using PowerCLI, Ansible or Terraform vSAN and storage architecture including ESA, storage policies and stretched cluster considerations

VCF operations and observability including monitoring, health, capacity and alerting

Enterprise Linux administration sufficient for supporting infrastructure and Kubernetes related services

Experience mentoring consultants and contributing reusable design patterns Employment Benefits

Defined growth path into specialist NSX and VKS architecture roles

Work within a high performing sovereign cloud practice

Exposure to complex, regulated and mission critical customer environments

Support for certification progression including VCF 9 Architect, Administrator and VCAP specialisations

Collaborative team culture with solid mentoring and knowledge sharing Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Veterans

Defence and Federal Government industry experience is highly desirable. We strongly encourage veterans and individuals with Defence experience to apply. Your unique skills and background are highly valued, and we are committed to supporting your transition into this role.

📌 Solutions Architect (Brisbane)
🏢 Cleared Professional Services
📍 Brisbane