Greetings from TCS..!!!

TCS is hiring for the role "VCF Cloud Architect"

Job Title: VCF Cloud Architect

Experience: 10 to 20 years

Location: Chennai/Pune /Hyderabad

Mode of Interview: Virtual Interview

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design:

- Define the target architecture for VCF using standard vs. consolidated models; separate management and VI workload domains where appropriate.
- Model VCF Fleets, Instances, and Domains, and specify growth, multi site patterns, and tenancy (e.g., VPC based isolation) aligned to use cases.
- Select and document platform services across vSphere (compute), vSAN (storage), NSX (network & security), SDDC Manager (LCM), VCF Operations (unified ops), VCF Automation (self service).
- Define network virtualization and micro segmentation patterns, load balancing, and E/W and N/S security controls on NSX.
- Architect observability, capacity, config drift, certificate/password, and security posture management through VCF Operations.

Build & Lifecycle Strategy:

- Establish Day 0/1/2 build and lifecycle standards using VCF Installer (for new or converged environments) and SDDC Manager for ongoing patch/upgrade/expand across vSphere, vSAN, and NSX.
- Define repeatable build units (clusters, domains) and JSON based patterns for at scale deployments; institutionalize fleet level LCM.
- Govern identity and access and service roles across vCenter, NSX, VCF Operations, and VCF Automation.

Automation & Consumption:

- Lead adoption of VCF Automation tenancy models (All App Org, VM App Org, Provider App Org), service catalogs, and guardrails.
- Define IaC patterns (e.g., Terraform/Aria Blueprints), tagging, placement policies, quotas,



and approvals for self service provisioning.

Operations, Security & Compliance:

- Establish SLAs/SLOs, capacity headroom policies, and cost/chargeback via VCF Operations Chargeback.
- Drive security baselines (NSX DFW, segmentation, encryption, cert mgmt), and compliance monitoring using VCF Operations.
- Align platform governance to multi cloud private cloud outcomes (agility, resilience, policy consistency).

Migration & Expansion:

- Define migration patterns (e.g., HCX) and domain/VPC landing zones; guide move to VCF waves and validation.

Leadership & Enablement
- Lead design reviews, maintain reference architecture, blueprints, runbooks; mentor platform and ops engineers.
- Partner with Security, Network, App, and FinOps teams; provide executive level roadmap and KPI reporting.

Job Requirements:

•15+ years in enterprise infrastructure with 10+ years architecting VMware based platforms; deep expertise across vSphere, vSAN, NSX and SDDC Manager lifecycle patterns.

•Proven design experience with VCF architecture models (management vs. workload domains, standard vs. consolidated) and fleet/instance/domain concepts.

•Hands on with VCF Installer (current and converged deployments) and VCF Operations (health, capacity, LCM, certificates, config drift, chargeback).

•Strong NSX skills: micro segmentation, DFW, routing/LB, VPC integrations inside VCF.

•Automation background: VCF Automation tenancy models and self service patterns; IaC (Terraform/Aria).

Preffered Certification:

VMware VCP/VCAP/VCIX with focus on DCV, NSX, and VCF/VVF streams; practical knowledge of VCF Operations and Automation features.

📌 VCF Cloud Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Tata Consultancy Services
📍 Chennai