Principal Consulting Engineer - VMware Cloud Foundation Automation

The Principal Consulting Engineer ensures solutions are delivered as designed and meet customer approval. We are seeking an experienced VMware Cloud Foundation Automation Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize automations on VCF 9.0. This role serves as the technical authority for VCF Automation in our software-defined data center strategy, driving standardization and automation across compute, storage, and networking management layers. What you will do: Collaborate with the technical architect on training plans and approaches to best equipped staff for successful implementations. Develop standards, best practices and training for team members along with technical architect and technical lead in their area of expertise. Define project strategies or technical options to balance customer project goals and financial constraints. Provide leadership and expert advice/counsel on technical subject matters and architecture design to Customers, the Infrastructure Solutions Team, and other Extended Sirius Teams. Escalate and communicate alternatives with associated risks with executives and stakeholders. Ensure procedures are being followed and assist in resolving complex problems which require professional level input. Regularly interface with customer’s technical and business executive level and project leadership through sales presentations and/or client project solutions in communicating complex ideas, anticipating potential objections and leading discussions to align expectations. Key Responsibilities Deliver VCF Automation engagements end-to-end on VCF9 — design through deployment Design and build automation patterns using Terraform, PowerShell, and Python — including third-party integrations with ServiceNow, Active Directory, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub/GitLab) Lead customer-facing discovery and road-mapping conversations. Framing up-front discovery, framing what's, and co-building the plan with the client Contribute to the team's automation playbook — share reusable