VMware Architect

We are seeking a VMware Aria Operations/VMware Cloud Foundation Architect to lead the design, optimisation, and strategic evolution of a large-scale enterprise monitoring and observability platform.

The successful candidate will provide architectural leadership across monitoring, logging, reporting, automation, and capacity management functions, working closely with operational and technical teams to drive platform reliability and operational excellence.

This is a Full time contract engagement commencing in mid-July.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for VMware Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, and associated observability platforms.
• Design and implement enterprise monitoring, logging, alerting, and reporting strategies.
• Translate high-level business and technical requirements into scalable architectural solutions.
• Define and build advanced dashboards, reports, and service health views for multiple enterprise environments.
• Design custom metrics, data collection frameworks, and automation capabilities to improve operational visibility.
• Provide thought leadership on proactive monitoring, event correlation, capacity management, and operational best practices.
• Lead root-cause analysis activities and provide architectural recommendations to improve platform resilience and performance.
• Establish monitoring standards, governance models, and operational procedures.
• Support capacity planning, trend analysis, and infrastructure growth forecasting.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, networking, and cloud teams to ensure end-to-end observability across the estate.
• Mentor operational teams and provide technical leadership across monitoring and management platforms.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive architecture and design experience with VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs.
• Strong understanding of VMware Cloud Foundation operational management.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale monitoring, observability, and reporting solutions.
• Experience creating custom dashboards, reports, alerts, policies, and automated workflows.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to challenge, influence, and provide strategic recommendations
• VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight).
• VMware Lifecycle Manager.
• VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
• Enterprise observability and monitoring strategy development.
• Understanding of: VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Kubernetes. Prometheus
• Infrastructure monitoring and observability best practices
• Capacity and performance management

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