Competencies :

- Strong enterprise solution architecture and design thinking

- Excellent customer-facing communication and presentation skills

- Ability to lead complex, high-impact migration programs

- Stakeholder management across technical and business teams

- Problem-solving mindset with attention to security and scalability

- Mentoring and knowledge-sharing capability

- Ability to handle critical and sensitive customer situations professionally

Job Description :

The role focuses on designing, architecting, and leading large-scale enterprise infrastructure deployments and migrations from on-premises VMware environments to Azure VMware Solution (AVS). The professional will work closely with customer stakeholders, program managers, and delivery teams to ensure secure, scalable, and high-availability cloud transformations using VMware and Azure technologies.

Key Responsibilities :

- Partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect, and execute complex infrastructure deployments and migrations to Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

- Lead customer engagements for on-premises VMware to Azure migrations using VMware HCX (Advanced & Enterprise).

- Collaborate with customer application, infrastructure, and security teams to define technical requirements, migration strategy, and target architecture.

- Design and implement VMware NSX-T based networking, security, and micro-segmentation solutions.

- Architect and deploy vSphere, vSAN, and NSX-T aligned with enterprise best practices.

- Design Azure connectivity using ExpressRoute, VPN, Virtual WAN, and Azure Route Server.

- Provide technical leadership, reviews, and guidance across architecture, security, networking, and high-availability designs.

- Act as a subject matter expert on AVS, VMware, and Azure technologies and mentor internal teams.

- Create solution documents, reference architectures, migration runbooks, and training materials.

- Stay current with VMware and Azure roadmap updates and proactively recommend improvements.

Must Have Skills :

- Azure VMware Solution (AVS)

- VMware HCX (Advanced & Enterprise)

- VMware NSX-T (Implementation, Migration, Edge Services)

- VMware vSphere 6.x and above

- VMware vSAN

- Azure ExpressRoute and Azure VPN

- Azure Networking (VNETs, routing, connectivity models)

- Hands-on experience in on-premises to cloud VMware migrations

- Strong understanding of datacenter networking (L2/L3), security, HA, DR, and monitoring

Good to Have Skills :

- VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) & vSphere Replication

- VMware Management Suite (vROps, vRLI, vRNI, vCD)

- Azure NetApp Files and Azure Disk Pools

- Azure Monitor, Arc, Defender/Security Center

- Third-party network virtual appliances (Firewalls, Load Balancers)

- Cloud management platforms and automation tools

- Knowledge of enterprise security & compliance frameworks

Certifications : VCDX, VCP-NV, CCNP, CCDP (preferred, not mandatory)