We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 219,000+ people across 54 countries, supercharging progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud.

The driving force behind that work, our people, are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis. We, in turn, work hard to bring out the best in them as we strive to help them find their spark and become the best version of themselves that they can be.

At HCLTech Australia, we value the unique perspective and contributions of all individual and we actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role.

Are you ready to be an important part of this ever-transformational journey?

Role Overview:

Architect – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

(vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite)

Role Summary

The VMware Cloud Foundation Architect is a senior technical authority responsible for the end-to-end architecture, design governance, and technical strategy of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)–based platforms. This role works across pre-sales, delivery, and operations to define scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure architectures aligned to customer business outcomes.

The Architect acts as the design owner and technical escalation point, ensuring architectural consistency, best practices, and long-term platform sustainability across VMware VCF, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and the Aria Automation.

Key Responsibilities

- Own the overall architecture for VMware Cloud Foundation platforms, translating business and non-functional requirements into robust, scalable technical designs.
- Define reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for VCF-based private and hybrid cloud environments.
- Lead high-level and low-level design reviews, ensuring architectural alignment with VMware best practices and customer strategy.

Technical Authority & Governance

- Act as the design authority throughout the project lifecycle, approving architecture decisions and managing technical risk.
- Provide architectural oversight during implementation to ensure solutions are delivered as designed.
- Lead technical escalations and complex design decisions involving performance, availability, security,



and scalability.
- Engage with senior customer stakeholders to articulate architectural vision, trade-offs, and roadmap alignment.

- Support pre-sales activities including solution shaping, architecture workshops, and technical assurance.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to customers on cloud transformation, platform modernization, and automation strategy.

Platform Optimisation & Lifecycle Strategy

- Define strategies for platform evolution, including upgrades, capacity planning, and future-state architectures.
- Drive architectural decisions for automation, operations, and lifecycle management using VMware Aria Suite and Infrastructure as Code principles.
- Ensure architectures are designed for operational efficiency and long-term maintainability.

Mentorship & Technical Leadership

- Provide architectural mentorship and guidance to consultants, engineers, and delivery teams.
- Review and uplift solution designs produced by others, ensuring consistency and technical excellence.
- Contribute to internal capability development, architectural frameworks, and best practice documentation.

Required Skills & Experience

Extensive experience (10+ years) designing and architecting enterprise VMware platforms in production environments.

Deep expertise in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including full-stack architecture across compute, storage, networking, and management layers.

Solid architectural knowledge of:

- vSphere
- vSAN
- NSX
- VMware Aria Suite (Automation, Operations, Lifecycle)

- Proven experience defining enterprise-grade architectures with high availability, resilience, security, and performance as core design principles.
- Strong understanding of automation and orchestration, including VMware Aria, Ansible, PowerShell, or Python.
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to present architecture to executive and technical audiences.




- Architecture experience across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong grounding in networking, storage, and security architecture within VMware environments.
- Experience applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps-aligned operational models.
- VMware certifications such as VCF 9 Admin, VCF 9 Architect, VCAP or VCDX (are required).

Why Us

- We are one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world, with offices in 50+ countries across the globe and 219,000 employees.
- Our company is extremely diverse with 165 nationalitiesrepresented.
- We offer the opportunity to work with colleagues across the globe.
- We offer a virtual-first work environment, promoting a good work-life integration and real flexibility.
- We offer comprehensive benefits for all employees.
- We are a certified great place to work and a top employer in 17 countries, offering a positive work environment that values employee recognition and respect.

Equality & Opportunity for All

Representing 165 nationalities across the globe, we pride ourselves in an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, colour, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law.

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📌 Vmware Consultant /Architect (Melbourne)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Melbourne