Senior Infrastructure Consultant

Cleared Professional Services - Senior Consultant — Infrastructure

Location

Brisbane

Working Arrangement

Hybrid working arrangements. You may be required on customer site. Some travel may be required.

Clearance.

Australian citizens with an existing clearance or the ability to obtain one are strongly preferred.

Company Overview

Cleared Professional Services delivers specialist consulting, architecture and engineering capability across Defence, National Security and regulated environments. Our Sovereign Cloud Practice focuses on VMware Cloud Foundation and sovereign cloud architectures, supporting customers with secure, compliant and high performing private cloud platforms. We provide deep technical expertise, structured delivery, and reliable technical outcomes aligned to mission and regulatory requirements.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Consultant to deliver high quality technical consulting across VMware Cloud Foundation and sovereign cloud engagements. This delivery focused role translates approved architectures into reliable implementation outcomes, ensuring build, configuration, validation and lifecycle activities meet practice standards. You will identify risks early, maintain strong documentation quality, support customer technical teams and contribute reusable delivery patterns back into the practice. The role offers a defined pathway into architectural positions as consultants build deeper design capability and platform expertise.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Deliver billable consulting work aligned to approved architectures and Statements of Work
• Execute VCF build, configuration, validation, lifecycle and operational activities according to practice standards
• Own assigned delivery workstreams from planning through completion with limited supervision
• Produce accurate, clean and reusable as built documentation
• Raise design issues, delivery risks, blockers and scope concerns early
• Support customer workshops, technical discussions and operational handover sessions
• Contribute field learnings, implementation patterns and reusable artefacts back into the practice
• Maintain accurate timesheets, status updates and delivery reporting

Education/Certifications Required

• 4+ years hands on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or related VMware technologies
• Recent hands on experience with VCF 9 or VCF 5.2 / vSphere 8 in production or delivery contexts
• Experience delivering infrastructure, virtualisation, cloud or private cloud consulting engagements

Knowledge/Skills Required

• Strong experience across vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and NSX
• Experience implementing solutions from existing designs including build, configuration and validation
• Strong troubleshooting capability across platform, infrastructure, networking and operational issues
• Experience producing customer facing technical documentation
• Experience working in structured delivery environments with scope boundaries and formal handover
• Ability to engage directly with customer technical teams

Highly Desirable

• NSX delivery experience including segments, Tier 0 and Tier 1 gateways, distributed firewall, load balancing and VPC constructs
• VKS, Tanzu or Kubernetes platform delivery experience, particularly where platform services intersect with VCF architecture, networking and operations

Desirable

• Infrastructure automation using PowerCLI, Ansible or Terraform
• vSAN and storage delivery including prerequisites, policies and dependencies
• VCF lifecycle experience across greenfield builds, upgrades, patching and interoperability
• Enterprise Linux administration

Employment Benefits

• Clear progression pathway into architecture roles
• Work within a high performing sovereign cloud practice
• Exposure to complex, regulated and mission critical customer environments
• Support for certification progression including VCF 9 Administrator and VCAP specialisations
• Collaborative team culture with strong mentoring and knowledge sharing

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.

Veterans

Defence and Federal Government industry experience is highly desirable. We strongly encourage veterans and individuals with Defence experience to apply. Your unique skills and background are highly valued, and we are committed to supporting your transition into this role.