AVS SME

About Company:

Our client is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises to reimagine business models and accelerate innovation through digital technologies. Powered by more than 84,000 entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries, it caters to over 700 clients with its extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes.

Job Title: AVS SME

Location: (Pan India)-Bangalore (Global village Tech Park) / Hyderabad (Rai Durg) / Mumbai (Powai / Mahape) / Chennai (DLF IT Park) / Pune (Shivajinagar) / Noida (Candor Techspace, Industrial Area) / Gurgaon (Ambience Island, DLF Phase 3) / Kolkata (Merlin Infinite, Salt Lake Electronics Complex)

Experience: 10 to 15 Years

Employment Type: Contract to Hire

Work Mode: Hybrid

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Only

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.

Responsibilities

• 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] 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
• [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, 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.

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