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Position: AVS Architect / SME
Duration: 12+ months contract
Location: Bellevue, WA (100% remote)
JOB DESCRIPTION
SKILLS NEEDED : Azure Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Solution Architecture, Enterprise Cloud Architecture, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure VPN, Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Route Server, Azure networking VMware vSAN Azure VMware Solution, VMware vSphere 60 and above, VMware NSXT network virtualization technologies
Language Preference - English and Spanish or Portuguese or French
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 selfhelp solutions and create training
Qualifications
Relevant experience in architecting and designing datacentre and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies
Knowledge and implementation experience designing and developing solutions using VMwares 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 onpremisestoCloud or cloudtocloud 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 loadbalancers 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 ing 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
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