Job Description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. •We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. •

The Virtualization Engineer is a highly skilled technical expert with significant in-depth, hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying virtualization technology. The Virtualization Engineer is an experienced subject matter expert on multiple compute and virtualization platforms and focuses on the development and delivery of value-added integration and consultative services in Enterprise solutions. The candidate should be well-versed in software-defined storage, virtualization, and networking and have experience with server hardware and data center operations.
### Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise and advice to clients on virtualized infrastructure technologies and solutions.
• Design and implement virtualized infrastructure solutions that meet client requirements and industry best practices.
• Perform configuration and optimization of hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, including software-defined storage, virtualization, and networking.
• Maintain technical credibility within the data center industry and the field through demonstration of thought leadership.
• Conduct assessments of client environments to identify areas of improvement and potential issues.
• Assist in creating project plans and timelines, and ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Provide technical training and support to clients and internal staff.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies related to virtualized and hyper-converged infrastructure.
• Collaborate with clients and project stakeholders to understand project goals, timelines, and budget constraints.
• Ensure technical designs are documented appropriately and shared with project teams and clients as needed.
• Conduct design reviews and obtain approval from project stakeholders as necessary.
• Collaborate with project teams to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.
• Ensure successful implementation and configuration of virtualized infrastructure solutions.
• Ensure project documentation is up-to-date, accurate, and accessible to project teams and clients as needed.
• Develop and maintain project documentation, including technical designs, and implementation plans.
• Possess a positive attitude and feel comfortable working within a cross-function organization, including the account team, technical architects, project managers, and client stakeholders.

### Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience architecting and configuring Data Center solutions, including solutions for transformational IT initiatives such as future data centers, virtualization, cloud, infrastructure-as-a-service, and IT-as-a-service.
• VMware Certified Professional in Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• VMware vCenter, vSphere, and vSAN design, deployment, and monitoring experience required.
• VMware vCenter and ESXi host upgrade experience required.
• VMware vSphere replication and migration experience required.
• An ideal candidate will have experience with the following technologies:
• Zerto Replication and Migration experience highly desirable.
• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware vRealize Suite (specifically vROps and vRLI), VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware NSX are highly desirable.
• VMC (VMware on AWS), Azure VMware Solution (AVS), and HCX are highly desirable.
• Blade computing platforms such as HP C-Series, Cisco UCS, and Dell PowerEdge.
• Converged and Hyperconverged offerings such as Nutanix, PowerFlex/VxFlex, VxBlock, VxRail, and Cisco Hyperflex.
• Possess a broad base of technical skills, business acumen, and a strong desire to support the client.
• Strong understanding of software-defined storage, virtualization, and networking.
• Understand the detail behind the implemented solution and have the ability to communicate the high-level vision with the client.
• Effectively communicate solutions architecture to the client, third parties, and the project teams.
• Encompass strong listening and interpersonal skills, an ability to solve complex problems, a big-picture mentality, and an aptitude to visualize the solution.
• Able to foster teamwork among the delivery team.
• Proficiency in hardware, software, and/or operating systems environments.
• Analytical ability.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Proven ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. As part of a diverse team, our success is often a collective effort leveraging the prior experience of others.
• Proven troubleshooting & problem-solving ability.
• Integration of Hypervisor technologies with storage, network, compute, backup, and cloud platforms.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

We understand that you have a life outside of work. That's why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more!