Principal Consulting Engineer - VMware Cloud Foundation

CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what’s possible through technology. The Principal Consulting Engineer will lead project teams in designing and implementing VMware Cloud Foundation solutions, providing technical expertise, and maintaining client relationships as a trusted advisor.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a project team, directing coworker and client teams in solution design and development. Provide leadership in creating business cases, financial justification and solution benefit content for customer ready deliverables and presentations
• Proactively addresses or escalates any budget issues that are identified during the project
• Quality Assurance for SOW requests that meet triggers for size, cross brand, and complexity. Perform peer review of deliverables from other team members for technical content to ensure accuracy
• Maintain client relationships as a trusted Technical Advisor providing best practices for virtualization, high availability, storage integration, and DR/business continuity. Serve as focal point for communications between multiple departments and clients, when necessary, using experience and judgment to communicate effectively to all parties. Recommend solutions supporting client account teams with development of proposals, quotations, and presentations
• Architect, deploy, and integrate VMware Cloud Foundation solutions, including comprehensive use of VCF Operations and VCF Automation
• Act as a trusted advisor on VMware SDDC technologies (vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VCF Operations and VCF Automation
• Develop, document, and enhance service offerings centered on VCF and VCF Automation capabilities, including standardized delivery methodologies and best practices
• Lead customer engagements, ensuring successful delivery of projects leveraging VCF Automation for tasks like self-service provisioning, policy-based governance, performance monitoring, and cost optimization
• Collaborate with sales and solution architects to design VCF solutions tailored to customer requirements
• Mentor consulting engineers on deploying and configuring VMware VCF Automation, VCF Operations, and related tools
• Contribute to reusable assets, including VCF workflows, blueprints, dashboards, and integration guides
• Analyze engagement trends to identify opportunities for new VMware VCF-focused services

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer science or an equivalent field
• 10 years of IT Infrastructure experience, including at least 3 years in large enterprise consulting, OR 14 years total Information Technology experience, to include 10 years of IT Infrastructure experience, including at least 3 years in large enterprise consulting
• Ability to multitask and prioritize workload under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Proven organizational, time-management, problem-solving, and follow-up skills
• Ability to manage and escalate technical issues to the appropriate vendor support team
• Maintain client relationships as a trusted Technical Advisor
• Serve as the focal point for communications between multiple departments and clients when necessary
• Take a lead technical role in reviewing and editing deliverables produced by other Engineering and Consulting teams
• Provide technical expertise in analyzing client's requirements to develop IT services offerings across multiple technology solutions
• Recommend solutions and support internal account teams with the development of proposals, quotations, and presentations
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated experience presenting technology recommendations from a business perspective to internal and external clients
• History of engaging with people across levels, functions, culture, and geography
• Proven ability to research advanced and complex technology solutions, evaluate alternatives, make recommendations, and present materials to clients
• Ability to act calmly and productively when confronted with change, ambiguity, and risk
• Deal constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes
• Demonstrated experience applying lessons learned to unique problems
• History of reskilling on new technologies with the ability to determine benefits for clients
• Ability and willingness to work beyond regularly scheduled shift, select weekends, overtime as necessary or on occasion to meet operational needs
• Ability and willingness to travel as needed to other CDW locations or client sites
• Valid U.S. driver's license
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and implementing VMware Cloud Foundation environments at enterprise scale
• Deep technical proficiency in VMware VCF Automation
• Strong knowledge of VMware SDDC: vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN
• Experience developing professional services methodologies, offerings, SOWs, and delivery frameworks
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable engaging technical teams and executives alike
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) or VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) certifications strongly preferred