About this role
PURPOSE
Senior technical expert responsible for design and implementation of an assigned technology.
We are seeking an experienced HCI Architect/Senior Consultant specializing in data center, network, and VMware technologies to design and optimize scalable, secure IT infrastructure aligned with business goals. The role also involves guiding customers through HCI assessments and service scoping for Nutanix and VMware platforms, translating business and technical requirements into clear, outcome-driven engagements while ensuring operational readiness and consistent delivery standards.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
Customer Intent & Requirement Ownership
Lead structured discovery to capture business drivers, workload requirements, and Day-2 operational expectationsDefine functional and non-functional requirements covering performance, availability, security, compliance, and lifecycleEstablish and maintain agreed assumptions, constraints, and dependencies for SD-WAN solutionsAct as the authoritative reference for customer intent throughout the engagementService Scope & Engagement Definition
Translate customer intent into a clearly defined Network Modernization – SD-WAN engagement scopeAlign requirements with standardized service offerings and delivery modelsDefine success criteria and scope boundaries to prevent ambiguity or unmanaged scope expansionSupport effort estimation and service structuring in pre-sales and delivery preparationDesign Intent Governance (Non-Design Ownership)
Provide architects with validated requirements, constraints, and operational contextParticipate in design reviews to ensure architectural outcomes align with agreed intent and scopeValidate inclusion of performance, availability, lifecycle, and resilience requirementsEnsure SD-WAN integration considerations are understood where HCI platforms connect to distributed or edge environmentsDelivery Outcome Alignment (Non-Execution Role)
Validate that delivered outcomes align with approved scope, architecture intent, and service definitionsIdentify and communicate misalignment risks between intent, design, and delivered solutionAct as customer-facing authority for acceptance criteria and outcome alignmentEscalate scope or intent deviations through governance channels without managing delivery tasksDay-2 Readiness & Automation Awareness
Ensure operational requirements (monitoring, lifecycle, scaling, support boundaries) are captured and reflected in design intentValidate that handover expectations support stable Day-2 operationsMaintain awareness of SD-WAN dependencies and Ansible-based automation opportunitiesCoordinate with network and automation specialists without owning technical design or implementationPre-Sales & Portfolio Contribution
Support technical pre-sales discussions and solution framingContribute to service descriptions, delivery templates, and engagement standardsFeed customer insights into service and portfolio evolution within the Sovereign Infrastructure and HCI offering YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:
Have strong understanding of HCI architectures integrating compute, storage, resilience, and lifecycle management across on-premises, edge, and private cloud environments. Experience: 4-6 yearsExperience positioning and governing Nutanix-based HCI solutions (AOS, AHV, Prism) from a requirements, design-intent, and service-fit perspective. Experience: 3-5 yearsHave working knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and SDDC lifecycle management, sufficient to validate architectural intent and delivery alignment. Experience: 3-5 yearsUnderstand enterprise networking fundamentals and SD-WAN concepts where HCI platforms integrate with distributed or edge connectivity models. Experience: 2-4 yearsAre familiar with operational requirements such as monitoring, lifecycle, scaling, and service handover. Experience: 3-5 yearsHave conceptual understanding of Ansible-based automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration and lifecycle workflows. Experience: 1-3 yearsAre able to lead structured customer discovery sessions and translate business intent into technical requirements. Experience: 4-6 yearsDef. of clear service scopes, success criteria, and engagement boundaries aligned with standardized offerings. Experience: 3-5 yearsHave ability to ensure consistent alignment between customer intent, architectural design and delivered outcomes without owning architecture or delivery execution. Experience: 3-5 yearsHave strong communication skills with customer technical stakeholders, architects, engineers, and internal teams. Experience: 4-6 yearsCertifications (Mandatory):
VMware Certified Professional – Cloud Foundation (VCP-VCF)
Nutanix Certified Professional – Multi-cloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI)Speak English - B2+ level WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?
We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:
Financial benefitsBenefits with focus on learning and developmentBenefits with focus on health and sportBenefits with focus on family and work – life balanceOther benefitsFor more information about our benefits click to Benefits
Salary
Final salary is negotiable.
We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2 200 € /brutto.
Additional information
* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.