Senior Azure VMware Solution (AVS) SME

10 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 onpremises 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 AzureAVS 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:

Successful Candidate Competencies

Relevant experience in architecting and designing datacentre and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies

Knowledge and implementation experience designing and developing solutions using VMware Core Cloud Infrastructure

Required Azure VMware Solution

Required VMware vSphere 60 and above

Required VMware NSXT network virtualization technologies

NSX edge services DNS DHCP Gateway Firewall Distributed Firewall

NSX implementation

NSX migration from vlan or NSXv

Required VMware vSAN

Required VMware HCX Advanced Enterprise

Preferred VMware Site Recovery Manager vSphere Replication

Preferred VMware management suite vCD vROps vRNI vRLI

Preferred VMware Cloud Director

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 Centre

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 datacentre 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

VCDXDCVCMA certification is preferred but not required

CCDP CCNP VCPNV certification is preferred but not required

Desired Qualifications

Experience working with enterprise customers on Azure specific solutions and deployment

Ability to communicate effectively with corporate customers possess an understanding of the onboarding process and demonstrate a vision for the future

Excellent customer service skills good oral and written communication skills proven ability to handle difficult and sensitive situations involving the most critical and politically charged customer situations to lead projects and to motivate others