13+ years of IT experience and minimum 3 years of experience on Azure VMware Solution and 5+ years of experience on VMware vSphere, Azure cloud services deployments, and cloud migrations.
Responsibilities
- You will partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect, and guide complex infrastructure deployments and migrations for large enterprise customers, moving customers from on-premises VMware environments to Azure VMware Solution.
- You will work directly with customer application, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to define requirements, strategy and processes for successful design, deployment & migrations.
- Maintain knowledge of the latest on Azure/AVS and VMware products in order to propose designs to customers and act as subject matter trainer for other specialists.
- Share knowledge with others through solution documents, engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions, and create training.
Qualifications
- Relevant experience in architecting and designing datacenter and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies.
- Knowledge and implementation experience designing and developing solutions using VMware’s Core Cloud Infrastructure
- [Required] VMware vSphere 6.0 and above.
- [Required] VMware NSX-T network virtualization technologies.
- NSX edge services (DNS, DHCP, Gateway Firewall, Distributed Firewall)
- NSX implementation
- NSX migration from vlan or NSX-v
- [Required] VMware vSAN
- [Required] VMware HCX Advanced & Enterprise
- [Preferred] VMware Site Recovery Manager & vSphere Replication.
- [Preferred] VMware management suite (vCD, vROps, vRNI, vRLI)
- Experience with on-premises-to-Cloud or cloud-to-cloud migrations with VMware HCX
- Experience with relevant Azure technologies like:
- [Required] Azure ExpressRoute and Azure VPN
- [Required] Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Route Server
- [Required] Azure networking.
- [Preferred] Azure Disk Pools and Azure NetApp Files
- [Preferred] Azure Monitoring and Security technologies (Monitor, Arc, Security Center)
- [Preferred] 3rd party network virtual appliances (firewalls, load-balancers, routers) for Azure and VMware environments.
- Experience and good understanding of any leading cloud management systems and solutions.
- Strong core platform architecture concepts including hardware platform, hypervisor, Networking, security, data protection, high availability, monitoring & alerting, patching etc.
- Familiarity with security & compliance standards across a variety of enterprise IT landscapes.
- Experience with Azure Hosting or Infrastructure background and public cloud highly desired.
- A good understanding of datacenter networking fabric topologies and common architectures deployed, both Layer 2 and Layer 3 based is highly desired.
- Strong presentation, influencing and communication skills.
Education Qualifications:
- BS or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or technology-focused discipline or equivalent experience
- VCDX-DCV/CMA certification is preferred but not required.
- CCDP, CCNP, VCP-NV certification is preferred but not required.