Cleared Professional Services - Senior Consultant — Infrastructure

Location Brisbane Working Arrangement Hybrid working arrangements. You may be required on customer site. Some travel may be required. Clearance. 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 reliable technical outcomes aligned to mission and regulatory requirements.

We are seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver high quality technical consulting across VMware Cloud Foundation and sovereign cloud engagements. This delivery focused role translates approved architectures into reliable implementation outcomes, ensuring build, configuration, validation and lifecycle activities meet practice standards. You will identify risks early, maintain strong documentation quality, support customer technical teams and contribute reusable delivery patterns back into the practice.

The role offers a defined pathway into architectural positions as consultants build deeper design capability and platform expertise.

Duties and Responsibilities Deliver billable consulting work aligned to approved architectures and Statements of Work

Execute VCF build, configuration, validation,



lifecycle and operational activities according to practice standards

Own assigned delivery workstreams from planning through completion with limited supervision

Produce accurate, clean and reusable as built documentation

Raise design issues, delivery risks, blockers and scope concerns early

Support customer workshops, technical discussions and operational handover sessions

Contribute field learnings, implementation patterns and reusable artefacts back into the practice

Maintain accurate timesheets, status updates and delivery reporting Education/Certifications Required 4+ years hands on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or related VMware technologies

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

Experience delivering infrastructure, virtualisation, cloud or private cloud consulting engagements Knowledge/Skills Required Strong experience across vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and NSX

Experience implementing solutions from existing designs including build, configuration and validation

Solid troubleshooting capability across platform, infrastructure, networking and operational issues

Experience producing customer facing technical documentation





Experience working in structured delivery environments with scope boundaries and formal handover

Ability to engage directly with customer technical teams Highly Desirable NSX delivery experience including segments, Tier 0 and Tier 1 gateways, distributed firewall, load balancing and VPC constructs

VKS, Tanzu or Kubernetes platform delivery experience, particularly where platform services intersect with VCF architecture, networking and operations Desirable Infrastructure automation using PowerCLI, Ansible or Terraform vSAN and storage delivery including prerequisites, policies and dependencies

VCF lifecycle experience across greenfield builds, upgrades, patching and interoperability

Enterprise Linux administration Employment Benefits Clear progression pathway into 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 Administrator and VCAP specialisations

Collaborative team culture with strong 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.

📌 Senior Infrastructure Consultant (Brisbane)
🏢 Cleared Professional Services
📍 Brisbane