Solutions Architect
Senior architect role focused on designing, deploying, and optimizing VMware-based cloud and virtual infrastructure solutions, ensuring high availability, performance, and security across enterprise environments.
About Us
Since 1989, SHI International Corp. has helped organizations change the world through technology. We’ve grown every year since, and today we’re proud to be a $16 billion global provider of IT solutions and services.
Over 17,000 organizations worldwide rely on SHI’s concierge approach to help them solve what’s next. But the heartbeat of SHI is our employees – all 7,000 of them. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy:
Our commitment to diversity, as the largest minority- and woman-owned enterprise in the U.S.
Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.
Health, wellness, and financial benefits to offer peace of mind to you and your family.
World-class facilities and the technology you need to thrive – in our offices or yours.
Job Summary
Role Description
Lead customer consulting projects focused on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud solutions, guiding them to successful outcomes as a subject matter expert (SME).
Collaborate with clients to identify VCF opportunities.
Plan, Deploy, Manage and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation. Ability to design and size infrastructure for the management components and for workload domains in preparing for VCF planning, designing and deployment of the physical network.
8+ year’s experience implementing and configuring vSphere environments.
Experience designing, deploying and configuration of NSX and NSX migrations. Should have experience with microsegmentation.
Experience designing, deploying and configuring data center networks or implementing/troubleshooting networking solutions involving LANs, VLANs, WANs, routers, switches, and firewalls.
Assess existing IT environments to provide strategies for VCF consumption.
Design, deploy and implementation of VMware vSAN clusters in a vSphere environment.
Hands-on installation and configuration knowledge of Aria Operations, especially with dashboards and alerts, and Log Insight
Experience with deploying Aria Automation, configuring service catalogs, and integrating Aria Automation Orchestrator.
Senior skills with designing, installing and configuring disaster recovery solutions using Site Recovery Manager and/or VMware Live Recovery.
Identify trends and deliver solutions that resolve challenges across multiple VMware products.
Ability to determine and resolve complex technical and operational challenges the customer may experience.
Strong communications and interpersonal skills with an ability to read complex customer situations and adapt as needed.
Mentor and manage consultants on VCF solutions.
Behaviors and Competencies
Problem-Solving: Can proactively identify and take ownership of complex problem-solving initiatives, initiate preventative measures, collaborate with others to find solutions, and drive successful outcomes.
Posted June 21, 2026