HCX Consultant

• Senior HCX Consultant
• Duration: ASAP until 31st December 2026
• Location: UK (Hybrid - with occasional travel to Leeds or Manchester)
• Engagement Type: Contract (Umbrella/PAYE only - PSC engagements not permitted)

We are working with a Platinum VMware Partner seeking an experienced Senior VMware HCX Consultant to support a major enterprise cloud transformation programme. The successful consultant will play a key role in configuring, optimising, and supporting VMware HCX to enable large-scale migrations into a new VMware Cloud Foundation environment.

This role will involve close collaboration with platform engineering and migration teams to ensure the HCX platform is correctly configured and tuned to support migration waves.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the setup, configuration, and tuning of VMware HCX within a VMware Cloud Foundation environment

• Support large-scale migration events into the target cloud platform

• Act as a rapid response escalation point during migration activities

• Collaborate with infrastructure and cloud engineering teams to ensure migration readiness

• Provide best-practice guidance for HCX performance and stability

• Participate in planned migration windows, which may occasionally occur outside standard business hours

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with VMware HCX deployment, configuration, and optimisation

• Proven background supporting enterprise migration programmes

• Experience working within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments

• Solid understanding of VMware infrastructure, networking, and hybrid cloud architectures

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly during critical migration windows

• Strong stakeholder communication and consultancy skills

• Umbrella/PAYE engagement model only (PSC engagements are not permitted for this client)

• Opportunity to work on a large-scale enterprise cloud migration programme

If you are a VMware HCX specialist looking to support a high-profile migration programme within a leading VMware partner, apply now or email