VMware Certified Advanced Professional VMware Cloud Foundation VKS Kubernetes

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

• Strong experience in VMware infrastructure, cloud platform administration, Kubernetes operations, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, and vSphere Kubernetes Service.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, containers, microservices, namespaces, pods, services, ingress, deployments, and stateful workloads.
• Experience with Kubernetes administration tools such as kubectl, YAML manifests, Helm charts, and container registries.
• Knowledge of VMware NSX, virtual networking, load balancing, DNS, routing, firewall rules, and network troubleshooting.
• Experience with storage integration, storage policies, persistent volumes, CSI drivers, backup, and recovery for Kubernetes workloads.
• Good understanding of security practices including RBAC, identity and access management, secrets management, image security, and policy enforcement.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across VMware Cloud Foundation, Kubernetes, compute, storage, and network layers.
• Experience working in enterprise environments with change management, incident management, capacity planning, and operational governance

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage vSphere Kubernetes Service clusters within VMware Cloud Foundation environments.
• Enable and administer Supervisor clusters, vSphere Namespaces, Kubernetes clusters, and related platform services.
• Manage Kubernetes cluster lifecycle activities, including provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching, and decommissioning.
• Configure and troubleshoot Kubernetes networking, load balancing, ingress, service discovery, and integration with NSX and Avi Load Balancer.
• Implement storage policies, persistent volumes, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery practices for containerized workloads.
• Define and enforce security controls, RBAC, identity integration, namespace policies, image registry access, and workload security standards.
• Support application teams in deploying and operating containerized workloads using Kubernetes, YAML, Helm, and related tools.
• Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and availability; troubleshoot issues across VMware, Kubernetes, networking, and storage layers.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and best practices.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, security, and application teams to support enterprise platform engineering initiatives.