Principal Consultant (VCF SME)

Overview

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This role emphasizes multiple versions of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), delivering high-quality design and implementation of VCF-based private and hybrid cloud solutions. The position involves working within an industry-leading sales and technical team to understand client needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve goals.

From strategy to fulfillment and managed services, our engineering-focused solutions help clients leverage technology to achieve more than they ever thought possible.

Base pay range

$175,000.00 / yr - $200,000.00 / yr

What you’ll be doing

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and are consistent with Winning Together values.
• Act as a technical lead in technology solutions by mentoring other engineers, leading a project team, reviewing deliverables, and serving as a point of escalation.
• Present technology topics at internal education sessions, industry user group meetings, and / or conferences.
• Be regarded as a thought leader by recommending new technologies, best practices, and tools that support business growth.
• Assess customer environments and make design and solution recommendations.
• Act as liaison between Pre-Sales and Delivery teams; provide design, deployment, and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions.
• Handle issues escalated by Consultants and Lead Consultants; troubleshoot multi-vendor issues.
• Lead a project team and stay current with vendor offerings and technology; meet customer IT needs.
• Achieve utilization targets and embrace Computacenter’s mission and core values.
• Lead architecture, design, deployment, and optimization of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (VCF 9.0) and core components (SDDC Manager, vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite).
• Conduct workshops, knowledge transfers, and lead internal technical training and evangelism.
• Oversee integration with third-party storage, network, security, backup, and automation tools.
• Create and deliver technical documentation, architectural blueprints, best-practice guidelines, and modernization roadmaps.
• Participate in or lead pre-sales efforts, technical scoping, proposals, and RFP responses.
• Maintain deep familiarity with VMware’s evolving VCF portfolio and drive use of advanced services like vDefend, Avi, Private AI, DSM, and integrated automation.
• Demonstrate proven hands-on expertise with VMware Cloud Foundation and VCF 9.0; strong understanding of vSphere, NSX, vSAN, Aria Suite, and extended VCF services.
• Hold VMware VCF Architect-level certification or higher (VCAP, VCDX preferred).
• Demonstrate strong architectural, lifecycle management, automation, hybrid cloud, and workload migration experience.
• Possess excellent client-facing communication, presentation, and documentation skills; think strategically to align VCF implementations with business outcomes.
• Experience in pre-sales, proposal development, and driving new revenue opportunities; mentorship and team development mindset.
• Stay current with VCF and broader VMware ecosystem trends, innovations, and certifications.
• Travel as needed (e.g., up to 20%) to support client engagements.

What you have

What you can expect

There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com / us

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