Technical Consultant, Compute & Virtualization
On-siteAtlanta, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Conduct client discovery, assessment, planning, and design workshops to deliver compute and virtualization solutions. Design and implement rack, blade, hyperconverged, and GPU-enabled infrastructure while deploying, upgrading, and optimizing VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and Kubernetes platforms. Perform technical analysis, configuration validation, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigation across compute and virtualization environments. Develop implementation plans, build guides, test procedures, and operational runbooks to support data center modernization and lifecycle initiatives. Collaborate with storage, networking, and security specialists to deliver integrated solutions and communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Provide knowledge transfer and operational guidance to client teams while adhering to AHEAD delivery methods and quality standards. Maintain current knowledge of emerging data center technologies and hybrid cloud architectures.
Required Qualifications
- Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, including ESXi, vCenter, clusters, resource management, high availability, and lifecycle operations
- Experience with server hardware, firmware, host configuration, capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational support
- Experience developing technical documentation and communicating implementation details to clients and delivery teams
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues methodically and drive issues to resolution
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with project managers, architects, engineers, vendors, and client stakeholders
- Willingness to travel to client sites when required by an engagement
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, NSX, Aria, HCX, or related VMware platform services
- Experience with Hyper-V, Azure Stack HCI, Kubernetes, or other modern platform technologies
- Experience with hyperconverged infrastructure, data center migrations, disaster recovery, or hybrid cloud environments
- Familiarity with Cisco UCS, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, NVIDIA, or other enterprise compute platforms
- Experience with automation or infrastructure-as-code using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools
- Relevant certifications such as VMware VCP, VCAP, VCDX, Microsoft Azure, Cisco, Dell, HPE, Nutanix, or equivalent experience
- Consulting, professional services, or systems integration experience
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