# Virtual Data Centre (VDC) Solutions Architect

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Location**: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment. As a Virtual Data Centre (VDC) Solutions Architect, you will shape secure, resilient, and scalable virtual infrastructure that supports critical government and enterprise environments in our GEO SPACES Team.

Responsibilities:

- Design secure Virtual Data Centre architectures spanning compute, storage, and networking.

- Develop architecture patterns, standards, reference designs, and detailed technical designs for virtual infrastructure.

- Guide project teams through design reviews and technical assurance, helping translate architecture into solutions that can be delivered effectively.

- Partner with cloud, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure platforms meet availability, resilience, and disaster recovery requirements.

Requirements:

- Experience in Virtual Data Centre architecture within enterprise or Defence environments.

- Capability across VMware technologies such as vSphere, ESXi, NSX, and vSAN, or equivalent virtualisation platforms.

- Experience designing highly available, resilient virtual infrastructure, including disaster recovery considerations.

- Ability to develop architecture standards, reference designs, and technical platform documentation.

- Ability to communicate complex technical designs clearly and collaborate across cloud, security, infrastructure, and project teams.

Benefits:

- Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.

- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.

- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.

- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

## Skills

### Required
- Virtual Data Centre architecture
- VMware technologies
- virtualisation platforms
- architecture standards
- technical platform documentation

### Nice to have
- technical assurance
- security considerations

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