Compute & Virtualization Solutions Consultant

Thinkahead; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Paid parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD, based in Atlanta, GA, seeks a Technical Consultant for Compute & Virtualization to design, implement, and support enterprise compute solutions. You will partner with clients, project managers, and delivery teams to translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure.

The role involves hands-on work with VMware vSphere, Cloud Foundation, and related platforms, plus designing workshops, build guides, and knowledge transfer while traveling to client sites as

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments.
• 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.
• Willingness to travel to client sites when required by an engagement.

Responsibilities

• Participate in client discovery, assessment, planning, and design workshops.
• Design and implement compute platforms, including rack, blade, hyperconverged, and GPU-enabled infrastructure where appropriate.
• Design, deploy, upgrade, migrate, and optimize virtualization and platform services, including VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation, with exposure to Hyper-V and Kubernetes platforms as applicable.
• Develop implementation plans, detailed designs, build guides, test plans, migration procedures, operational runbooks, and as-built documentation.
• Collaborate with storage, networking, data protection, security, cloud, and automation specialists to deliver integrated solutions.
• Communicate technical concepts, decisions, risks, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support project estimation, statements of work, technical proposals, and solution scoping when needed.
• Provide knowledge transfer and operational guidance to client teams.

Skills

Consultative communication

Technical problem solving

Infrastructure architecture

Project management

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer focus

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

VMware vSphere

vSAN

NSX

Kubernetes

Hyper-V

PowerShell

Python

Job description

AHEAD, based in Atlanta, GA, seeks a Technical Consultant for Compute & Virtualization to design, implement, and support enterprise compute solutions. You will partner with clients, project managers, and delivery teams to translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure.

The role involves hands-on work with VMware vSphere, Cloud Foundation, and related platforms, plus designing workshops, build guides, and knowledge transfer while traveling to client sites as