AVS SME Consultant

Overview

Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - Contract

Skills

CLOUD COMPUTING
MICROSOFT AZURE
VMWARE
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT
Communication Skills
Data Protection
System Availability
Safety Principles
Networking Skills
Information Technology
Knowledge of Standards Compliance
Data Centers
Public Cloud Computing Platform
Hardware Platform Interface
Hypervisor
Network Layer
VMware VSphere
Topology

Job Details

Job Title: AVS SME
Job Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

  • 8+ years of IT experience and minimum 2 years of experience on Azure VMware Solution and 4+ years of experience on VMware vSphere, Azure cloud services deployments, and cloud migrations.

  • You will partner with Architects and service delivery teams to plan and implement 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 for successful deployment & migrations.

  • Maintain knowledge of the latest on Azure/AVS and VMware products in order to deploy and migrate services as per industry best practices.

  • Share knowledge with others through technical documents, and internal trainings.

Qualifications Successful Candidate Competencies:

  • Relevant experience in implementing and migrating data center and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies.

  • Knowledge and implementation experience on VMware's Core Cloud Infrastructure

  • [Required] Azure VMware Solution

  • [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

  • Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Route Server

  • Azure networking.

  • Azure Disk Pools and Azure NetApp Files

  • Azure Monitoring and Security technologies (Monitor, Arc, Security Center)

  • 3rd party network virtual appliances (firewalls, load-balancers, routers) for Azure and VMware environments.

  • Strong understanding of 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 communication skills.

Education Qualifications

  • BS or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or technology-focused discipline or equivalent experience

  • VCTA, VCP-DCV certification is preferred but not required.

  • CCNP, VCP-NV certification is preferred but not required.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience working with enterprise customers on Azure specific solutions and deployment.

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