VMware Architect
VMware Architects are required to be competent to conceptualize, create, and design complex IT architectures. Their knowledge of the subject should be practical and exhaustive.
They should also be very conversant with their domain so that they can provide guidance and professional instructions to support their clients.
Essentially, VMware is an American company which makes virtualization products and enterprise services. The major products of the company are Workstation, which is used for Linux and Windows) and Fusion, which is used for MacOS, both of which are virtualization products that allow individuals to run an additional OS without needing to do away with their existing hard drives. It is done by running the new OS in a virtual machine.
They should be capable of incorporating proficiency in architecture design and should comprehend issues, contexts, and effects very well to know how to move ahead by providing appropriate support to their clientele.
VMware Architect must possess excellent interpersonal skills to communicate with customers and for instilling confidence within them, as they need to convey their plans verbally and through documentation to technical as well as non-technical users at each level in an organization. Moreover, they need to have the talent for exchanging ideas, making suggestions and being able to persuade the team they are working with proceeding further.
Job Description
Besides being the point of contact for technical issues, VMware Architects must lead a team of engineers and designers to institute standard operating procedures with an aim to mitigate the project associated risks. They should interact with the senior management, project managers, and cost accountants because they are responsible for the pricing of projects, to develop plans for testing and deployment, and to develop project plans.
Most importantly, they hold the responsibility for troubleshooting issues and ensuring that projects will be executed within the stipulated period and well within the budget allocated.
VMware Architects design and build IT strategies, cloud configurations, and related services. They provide security infrastructure solutions for public cloud-based environments.
Architects create the necessary documentation for the teams that deploy and support cloud-based technology designs. They meet service level agreements (SLAs) and discuss with various teams across the organization to ensure that new technologies are introduced, and the existing technologies are replaced when necessary.
Architects take the lead in security projects by helping in the design and management of IT infrastructure security. They assist in several other projects, such as clouds, databases, operating systems, and applications, among others.
Architects build and deploy strategies to use consistent design patterns across platforms, infrastructure, and applications. They comply with the policies and guidelines of their organization to adopt best practices and standards and share this knowledge with team members.
They also evaluate the customer’s environment, document plans for implementation and demonstrate the ability to changing requirements, preferences, and schedules.
Future for VMware Architects
Some companies are getting ready for the future by using new technologies, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), so that their networks are more secure, speedy, and efficient, making it compulsory for VMware Architects to learn new skills.
VMware has become popular for creating one of the most user-friendly virtualization platforms in VSphere, which is said to have made several organizations save a lot of money. Owing to this, most of the current deployments are taking place in VMware vSphere environments, which is making developers use new technologies like containers, increasing the proportion of workloads that run in public clouds. It is necessary, thus, for network virtualization to expand to offer a complete range of networking as well as security services in emerging environments, besides vSphere. Future VMware Architects should take note of this. They should also keep themselves up-to-date with the latest VMware technologies.
Qualifications and Certifications
Architects should have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or engineering and experience proportional to the size and scale of the project where they would work. They usually report to a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) or a CIO (Chief Information Officer).
One has to be a VCDX (VMware Certified Design Expert), with experience in Data Center virtualization and cloud computing with the help of VMware's virtualization software, vSphere. Other certifications that would help them are vRealize Suite, Horizon, and vSAN, among others.
Salary
Paysa reveals that an average yearly salary of VMware Architect is $121,735, with the top 10 percent of the people getting more than $158,007. But the mean ranges between $102,175 and $138,012.
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