AVS Technical Architect

Job Title: AVS Technical Architect 
Job Location: Remote 
Job Type: Contract 

Independent Visa''s

Job Description:  

• 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. 

• 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 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’s Core Cloud Infrastructure 

• VMware vSphere 6.0 and above. 

• VMware NSX-T network virtualization technologies. 

• NSX edge services (DNS, DHCP, Gateway Firewall, Distributed Firewall) 

• NSX implementation 

• NSX migration from vlan or NSX-v 

• VMware vSAN 

• VMware HCX Advanced & Enterprise 

• VMware Site Recovery Manager & vSphere Replication. 

• 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: 

• 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. 

• 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.