[Hiring] Sr. AVI Consultant @S Base Technologies

Role Description

This is a senior technical position within the Professional Services Organization (PSO) specializing in Applications & Network Security (ANS). The role emphasizes hands-on expertise with Avi control and data planes, multi-cloud architectures, GSLB, WAF, and container ingress, while supporting enterprise-grade security integrations such as PKI, DNS, and MFA. The role requires strong architectural judgment, deep troubleshooting skills, and the ability to communicate technical impact to business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deploy VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI) solutions for enterprise and mission-critical applications.
• Lead greenfield and brownfield AVI implementations, including Controller and Service Engine design, placement, scaling, and HA.
• Design and implement Avi GSLB, traffic policies, and application profiles across multi-site and multi-cloud environments.
• Define and enforce AVI configuration standards and best practices.
• Provide hands-on administration of AVI Controllers, Service Engines, WAF, and GSLB components.
• Perform platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, backups, restores, and capacity planning.
• Manage AVI architectures and ensure platform resiliency, performance, and availability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in application delivery, with 5+ years of deep, hands-on experience with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi).
• Expert knowledge of:
  • AVI Controllers and Service Engines
  • AVI GSLB
  • AVI WAF
  • AVI HA, scale-out, and multi-site architectures
• Proven experience deploying AVI in enterprise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• VMware / AVI certifications (AVI Certified Administrator, VMware certifications).
• Experience with Zero Trust, micro-segmentation, or NSX security services.
• Experience integrating AVI with monitoring, automation, and CI/CD platforms.
• Prior exposure to F5 BIG-IP environments (migration or coexistence scenarios).

Skills Checklist

• Hands-on experience with Distributed Firewall and AVI Load Balancer is highly desired.
• Broad knowledge of the entire BC-VMW product stack and how to secure those solutions.
• Architecture, design, and deployment of VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI).
• Hands-on administration of Avi Controllers and Service Engines.
• AVI HA, scaling, upgrades, backups, and lifecycle management.
• AVI GSLB design and traffic policies.
• AVI WAF configuration and tuning.
• SSL/TLS and PKI certificate lifecycle management (CA, CRL, OCSP).
• Integration with vCenter, NSX-T, and ESXi.
• Support for multi-cloud and Kubernetes ingress.
• Layer 1–7 troubleshooting using AVI analytics, logs, tcpdump, curl, OpenSSL.
• Strong understanding of DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, BGP, OSPF, NAT.