📍 Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
🏢 Work Model: Hybrid – Minimum 3 Days/Week from Client Office
📅 Contract Duration: 6 Months
🌐 Industry: Broadband & Enterprise Infrastructure
🌍 Eligibility: Valid Netherlands/EU work authorization
We are looking for an experienced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Architect to join a large-scale enterprise transformation program for a leading global organization in the Semicondictor manufacturing and infrastructure technology domain.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on complex hybrid cloud and VMware modernization initiatives involving enterprise-scale infrastructure, automation, migration, and cloud transformation projects.
As a VCF Architect, you will play a key role in designing, deploying, and optimizing VMware Cloud Foundation environments while collaborating with global infrastructure, network, security, and DevOps teams.
Lead VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) assessment, design, and deployment activities
Design scalable and secure hybrid cloud environments
Deploy and manage:
SDDC Manager
vSphere
vSAN
NSX-T
Drive migration from legacy VMware environments to VCF platforms
Implement automation using PowerCLI, Ansible, and VMware lifecycle tools
Collaborate with infrastructure, storage, network, security, and DevOps teams
Ensure HA/DR readiness, operational stability, and performance optimization
Maintain architecture documentation, SOPs, and implementation standards
Align solutions with VMware best practices and validated designs
✔ 10+ years of experience in virtualization and infrastructure architecture
✔ Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
✔ Strong expertise in:
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 4.x / 5.x)
vSphere
vSAN
NSX-T
SDDC Manager
✔ Proven experience in:
VCF deployment and migration projects
VMware automation and lifecycle management
PowerCLI, Ansible, and VMware automation tools
✔ Experience with:
VMware Aria Suite (vRealize)
HCX
Hybrid cloud integrations
✔ Strong networking knowledge including:
VXLAN
BGP / OSPF
Overlay networking
✔ Strong understanding of enterprise storage and security architecture
✔ VMware certifications such as VCAP / VCIX / VCDX preferred
✔ Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
I look forward to receiving your application! Once submitted, we will review it and consider your fit against other candidates in the process. We strive to ensure an efficient process, though there may occasionally be delays.
Sperton is part of Sperton Global, a recruitment and consulting company with an international reach. We are committed to helping our clients achieve success in their hiring processes, finding the right people for the right positions.
SPERTON is a full-range provider of Global Recruitment, People Management, Global Mobility and Business support services within focused industry sectors. Our head office is located in Norway. We have over 20 years’ of experience supporting clients within the Human Resources area. We can support you globally through our own companies and partners in more than 140 countries.
Sperton had been specializing in the supply of the very best freelance and permanent white-collar professionals working with projects. We provide consultant and recruitment services to companies of all types and sizes, including consultancies, contractors, sub-contractors, developers and end clients operating across a wide range of projects and environments.
Now our services also include People Management, Global Mobility and Business Support Services.
Legal entity set-up, payroll services, HR administration, compliance, and insurance provision, cultural awareness training, and mobility support – everything needed to work compliantly with local legislation and regulations in different countries.
With over 20 years of global experience within project execution, we understand your challenges and know how to support you from the start to the end of the project.
