Company Overview
CA Technologies creates software that drives IT transformation and innovation for businesses worldwide. Their solutions span planning, DevOps, security, and systems management across mobile, cloud, distributed, and mainframe environments, enabling enterprise productivity and growth.
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Technical Trainer to deliver enterprise-level Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and Virtual Instructor-Led Training (vILT), focusing on hands-on technical facilitation and curriculum collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high-touch ILT and vILT sessions as Lead Instructor to enterprise customer teams, engineers, and administrators
- Facilitate complex hands-on lab exercises and run live technical demonstrations during training sessions
- Troubleshoot live lab environments and resolve technical edge cases in real time during training delivery
- Collaborate with the Business Unit (BU) to review and improve courseware, lab topologies, and student guides based on classroom feedback
- Provide subject matter expertise to align training content with field needs and assist in establishing delivery best practices
- Support onboarding of guest or peer instructors to maintain training quality and consistency
- Travel to customer sites or corporate events to deliver onsite classroom training as required
- Apply deep knowledge of VCF platform architecture, including multi-domain deployment, lifecycle management, and Day-2 operations
- Utilize expertise in compute and virtualization technologies such as vSphere, ESXi host tuning, vCenter Server, cluster management, HA, and DRS
- Manage Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) domains, including VCF management domains, workload domains, and upgrade processes
- Demonstrate proficiency in VMware NSX ecosystem for virtual routing, switching, micro-segmentation, and security concepts
- Apply VMware vSAN architecture knowledge for software-defined storage, including storage policy-based management and resilience operations
- Monitor infrastructure performance, manage logs and capacity, and implement self-service automation with governance and API integrations
- Incorporate cloud-native Kubernetes concepts on VCF, including Supervisor services and Tanzu/VCF Kubernetes Services (VKS)
- Manage enterprise infrastructure components such as DNS, NTP, certificates/PKI, identity, security, and high availability
Required competencies and certifications
- Active VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or higher advanced VMware credential (preferred/required as per original JD)
- Hands-on experience operating, implementing, or engineering VMware Cloud Foundation environments
- Proven ability to present complex platform architectures to sophisticated enterprise engineering teams
- Minimum 12 years of related professional experience
Preferred competencies and qualifications
- Current VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) status strongly preferred
- Background as a VMware Certified Instructor, authorized technical instructor, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Lead
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; relevant years of experience may substitute for degree