VCF Automation & Operations Engineer

About the Role

At MomentumAI, you’ll build, automate, and operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 private cloud environments for enterprise and government clients. You’ll work across both VCF Automation and VCF Operations, delivering self-service private cloud platforms with robust monitoring, policy-driven management, and proactive health diagnostics.

We are seeking an engineer with hands-on experience across the full VCF Automation and Operations stack. You will configure provider infrastructure and networking, build multi-tenant organizations with VPC-based isolation, design blueprint-driven self-service catalogs, and operate the environment using VCF Operations for visibility, performance optimization, and troubleshooting. You’ll work with stakeholders, developers, security, and operations teams in both commercial and air-gapped environments.

VCF 9 unifies automation and operations into a single platform for building and managing private clouds at scale. You’ll help clients stand up complete private cloud environments, from fleet deployment through ongoing operations, with full observability and policy-driven governance.

What You’ll Do

VCF Automation

• Provider Infrastructure Management: Configure and manage VCF Automation provider portals, discover VCF entities (vCenter, NSX Manager), manage certificates, and onboard infrastructure resources into regions with VM classes, storage classes, and quotas
• Identity & Access Management: Integrate identity providers (LDAP, SAML, OpenID Connect) with VCF Single Sign-On and VCF Identity Broker, manage custom roles and rights bundles, configure service accounts and API tokens for programmatic access
• Provider Networking: Configure IP spaces, NSX Edge clusters, provider gateways (Tier-0), and regional networking stacks to enable organization connectivity
• Organization Networking with VPC: Design and implement multi-tenant Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) architectures with subnet isolation, NAT policies, and connectivity profiles for organization workloads
• Organization & Project Management: Create and configure organizations (All Apps, VM Apps, Provider Consumption), set up projects with namespace classes (VM and storage class assignments), and manage organization-level identity and access
• Content & Catalog Management: Build and manage provider and organization content libraries, design VCF Automation blueprints using the Template Designer, publish catalog items (blueprints, VM images, Orchestrator workflows), and configure approval and lease policies
• Orchestrator Workflows: Build and manage Orchestrator workflows within the Provider Consumption Organization (PCO), connect to vCenter systems, publish workflows as catalog items, and automate complex multi-step provisioning tasks
• Modern App Deployment: Deploy workloads through IaaS self-service (projects, namespaces) and catalog-based options, leverage vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), VM Service, and cloud services including data services, secret store, and object store

VCF Operations

• Monitoring & Observability: Navigate the VCF Operations console, build custom views for VM configuration details, create custom report templates for daily and weekly status updates, and design dashboards with interactive widgets for NOC teams
• Policy-Driven Management: Create and assign VCF Operations policies for workload automation, capacity settings, alert thresholds, and provider pricing, with policy inheritance across object hierarchies
• Symptoms & Alerts: Define custom symptom definitions (static, dynamic, and compare thresholds), create alert definitions with conditions and recommendations, configure outbound alert plug-ins (log file, email), and build notification rules
• Health & Diagnostics: Monitor VCF health status using the Health Dashboard, review diagnostic findings (active and historical), use the Troubleshooting Workbench to investigate issues, and leverage Log Assist for diagnostic bundle collection
• Log Management: Configure VCF Operations for Logs appliance, set up log collection, analyze logs using queries and machine learning, and use log-based alerts for proactive issue detection
• Storage Operations: Monitor vSAN cluster health and performance using VCF Operations, run performance diagnostics, benchmark and optimize storage, and troubleshoot production cluster issues
• Network Operations: Monitor network health using VCF Operations for Networks, analyze traffic flows for vCenter and NSX, review NSX health widgets, and identify network performance issues
• Service Discovery & Application Monitoring: Configure service discovery for automatic detection of running services, install and manage Telegraf agents, activate application monitoring with cloud proxies, and set up custom remote checks

Required Qualifications

Strong candidates will meet most (not necessarily all) of the following requirements.

• 5+ years of experience in VMware administration, private cloud operations, or infrastructure automation roles
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX administration
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) components, including SDDC Manager and workload domain management
• Familiarity with VCF Automation concepts: organizations, regions, blueprints, catalogs, and self-service provisioning (formerly VMware Aria Automation / vRealize Automation)
• Familiarity with VCF Operations concepts: dashboards, policies, alerts, and health monitoring (formerly VMware Aria Operations / vRealize Operations)
• Understanding of multi-tenant networking: VPCs, IP spaces, NSX Edge clusters, and provider gateways
• Remote-friendly with travel to client sites as needed

Preferred Qualifications

These are nice-to-haves that strengthen your candidacy. You don’t need all of them.

• Consulting or professional services background with client-facing delivery experience
• VMware Certified Professional - VCF Administrator (VCP-VCF Administrator)
• Completion of VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0] (VCFAOP9) or equivalent experience
• Experience with VCF Orchestrator workflow development and catalog publishing
• Experience with identity federation (LDAP, SAML, OIDC) in VMware environments
• Proficiency with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, Python) for VCF lifecycle management
• Experience building custom VCF Operations dashboards, super metrics, and alert definitions
• Experience with VCF Operations for Logs, including log collection configuration and query-based analysis
• Familiarity with vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and VM Service for modern app deployments
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for apps
• Experience working with Git, GitHub/Gitlab for source control and leveraging a GitOps model for app / infra CI/CD
• Experience working with artifact and container image repositories like Artifactory, Nexus, Docker Hub, GCR, ECR, ACR, etc.

Nice to Have

• Active security clearance (TS/SCI preferred for government engagements)
• Experience working in federal or defense environments
• Experience with air-gapped or disconnected environment deployments
• Experience with VCF fleet management across multiple VCF instances
• Experience integrating with ServiceNow or other self-service portals