Job Title: Zerto Solution Architect
Location: New York, NY
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Role Summary:
The Zerto Solution Architect is the platform SME for all Zerto-based replication and DR orchestration on the program.
This role designs the end-to-end Zerto architecture - ZVM placement, VRA deployment, journal sizing, VPG topology,and runbook design - and is responsible for ensuring Tier-0 and Tier-1 workloads achieve the seconds-grade RPOthat Zerto provides.
Key Responsibilities:
- Zerto Architecture Design Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) placement on-prem and in Azure, Virtual ReplicationAppliance (VRA) deployment strategy across VMware hosts, and Zerto cluster topology.
- Journal & VPG Design Calculate journal sizing per VPG based on change rate, retention windows, and storageperformance; define seeding strategies and bandwidth throttling/compression policies.
- Workload Protection Strategy Define VPG groupings aligned with application tiers and boot order, set RPOtargets per tier, and design failover/failback runbooks (Recovery Plans).
- Tool Selection Determine which workloads are protected by Zerto vs ASR based on RPO requirements,application criticality, and licensing economics.
- Design Documentation Author Zerto sections of the Architecture Design Document, Zerto runbook templates,monitoring and alerting design (metrics, dashboards, thresholds, escalation).
Required Skills & Experience:
- 12+ years of enterprise infrastructure / DR architecture; 5+ years deep, hands-on Zerto platform experience including VMware-to-Azure replication.
- Demonstrated experience implementing Zerto for 500+ VM environments with complex multi-tier application dependencies.
- Strong VMware vSphere knowledge (vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking) and Azure target-side networking and storage.
- Zerto Certified Professional (ZCP) - Enterprise Engineer or Zerto Certified Architect;
- current on latest Zertorelease (10.x+).
- VMware VCP-DCV or VCAP-DCV Design.
- Microsoft AZ-104 / AZ-305
- strongly preferred to bridge with the Azure SA.
Key Deliverables:
Zerto HLD/LLD, journal sizing model, VPG inventory and grouping plan, failover runbooks (Recovery Plans), DRtest design, Zerto monitoring and alerting design, sign-off package.