AVS Technical Architect || Remote

Job Title: AVS Technical Architect

Remote role

Mandatory Skills

1. AVS (Azure VMware Solution) architecture-level expertise deep understanding of design and enterprise-scale deployment
2. VMware NSX-T hands-on architecture and design experience
3. vSAN architecture in-depth knowledge for enterprise deployment
4. HCX (Hybrid Cloud Extension) Advanced/Enterprise features for migration and hybrid setups
5. VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for disaster recovery and replication design
6. Azure networking for AVS advanced expertise in:
   • ExpressRoute
   • Azure Virtual WAN
   • Azure Route Server
7. Datacenter architecture & platform design enterprise migration planning and large-scale infrastructure design

Experience:

• 13+ years of IT experience
• Minimum 3 years on Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
• 5+ years on VMware vSphere, Azure cloud services deployments, and cloud migrations

Responsibilities:

• Partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect, and guide complex infrastructure deployments and migrations for large enterprise customers, moving them from on-premises VMware environments to AVS.
• Work directly with customer application, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to define requirements, strategy, and processes for successful design, deployment, and migration.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Azure/AVS and VMware products to propose solutions and act as a subject matter trainer for other specialists.
• Share knowledge through solution documents, technical communities, automated self-help solutions, and training programs.

Technical Qualifications:

• Experience architecting and designing datacenter and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies.
• Strong knowledge of VMware Core Cloud Infrastructure:
  • Required: VMware vSphere 6.0+, VMware NSX-T (edge services, implementation, migration from VLAN/NSX-v), VMware vSAN, VMware HCX Advanced & Enterprise
  • Preferred: VMware Site Recovery Manager & vSphere Replication, VMware management suite (vCD, vROps, vRNI, vRLI)
• Experience with on-premises-to-cloud or cloud-to-cloud migrations using VMware HCX
• Experience with relevant Azure technologies:
  • Required: Azure ExpressRoute, Azure VPN, Azure Virtual WAN, Azure Route Server, Azure networking
  • Preferred: Azure Disk Pools, Azure NetApp Files, Azure Monitoring & Security (Monitor, Arc, Security Center), 3rd party network appliances for Azure & VMware
• Understanding of cloud management systems and solutions
• Strong platform architecture knowledge: hardware platforms, hypervisors, networking, security, data protection, high availability, monitoring, patching
• Familiarity with security & compliance standards across enterprise IT environments
• Azure hosting or infrastructure experience and public cloud knowledge is highly desired
• Knowledge of datacenter networking fabric topologies (Layer 2 & Layer 3)

Education & Certifications:

• BS or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or technology-focused discipline, or equivalent experience
• Preferred but not mandatory: VCDX-DCV/CMA, CCDP, CCNP, VCP-NV

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with enterprise customers on Azure-specific solutions and deployments
• Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills
• Excellent customer service, ability to handle complex or sensitive situations, lead projects, and motivate teams