Must-have for every candidate for all the skills
• VCF 9 in production: hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x in a production environment. Experience with only VCF 4/5 or vSphere 7/8 is not sufficient.
• Broadcom/VMware: experience raising and driving technical cases with Broadcom/VMware support.
• English: fluent, written and spoken.
Skill cluster
People needed (primary skill)
Key skills
1. VCF Automation / cloud service development
2–3
VCF Automation, Aria Automation, vRealize Automation (vRA), blueprints, VM Service, REST APIs, Python, self-service portal
2. Automation / DevOps
1–2
GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI
3. Network security on VMware
1–2
NSX distributed firewall, micro-segmentation, zero trust, VRF, Avi, NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB), WAF
4. VCF platform engineering
2
VCF 9, VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, ESXi, vSAN, NSX, SDDC Manager, VCF lifecycle, VCF upgrades
5. Kubernetes on VMware
2
VKS, vSphere Kubernetes Service, Tanzu, TKG, TKGS, vSphere with Tanzu, Supervisor cluster, Kubernetes, Velero
Nice to have
• VCP-VCF or VCAP certification
• Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus
• minIO, S3 object storage, vSAN File Services
• RHEL
• Large-enterprise private cloud experience
Not a fit
• VMware operations or L1/L2 support profiles
• Network engineers without NSX experience
• DevOps engineers without VMware experience
• Candidates whose VMware experience predates VCF
