Virtualization Enterprise Architect – Remote (UK)

About the role

World Wide Technology is seeking a senior Virtualization Enterprise Architect to lead end‑to‑end delivery of virtualization and private‑cloud projects for UK‑based clients. The role involves designing, building and migrating VMware and Red Hat platforms, guiding customers through VMware‑to‑Kubernetes transitions and ensuring operational handover.

Key responsibilities

• Own technical delivery of virtualization and private‑cloud engagements, from architecture definition to go‑live validation.
• Chair Architecture Review Board and Technical Design Authority sessions, managing governance and design sign‑off.
• Design and validate VMware environments (vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX‑T/NSX‑V, VMware Cloud Foundation).
• Architect Red Hat solutions including OpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) and Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
• Lead migration strategies from VMware to Kubernetes and VM‑to‑container workloads, assessing risk and sequencing.
• Design software‑defined storage and networking (vSAN, Ceph, OpenShift Data Foundation, NSX).
• Define disaster‑recovery and business‑continuity architectures (Site Recovery Manager, DR orchestration).
• Promote infrastructure‑as‑code and automation using Ansible, Terraform, GitOps/ArgoCD.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to reference architectures.

Required profile

• 8‑10+ years of experience in virtualization, private‑cloud or infrastructure architecture.
• Proven ownership of technical delivery for enterprise engagements.
• Strong ability to communicate complex designs to senior infrastructure leadership.

Required skills

• VMware vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX‑T, NSX‑V, VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt), Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
• Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Software‑defined storage (vSAN, Ceph, OpenShift Data Foundation).
• Software‑defined networking (NSX).
• Disaster‑recovery tools (Site Recovery Manager).
• Automation and IaC tools: Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, ArgoCD.