Enterprise Compute & Virtualization Consultant

Ahead Now Aps; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Technical Consultant, Compute & Virtualization, in the United States to design, implement, and support modern compute and virtualization solutions for clients. You will partner with project managers, architects, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities include hands-on implementation, design workshops, documentation, and knowledge transfer, with opportunities to work across VMware vSphere, Cloud Foundation,

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 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 with project managers, architects, engineers, vendors, and client stakeholders.
• 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.
• Contribute to data center modernization, consolidation, migration, and lifecycle initiatives.
• Perform technical analysis, configuration, validation, troubleshooting, and root-cause investigation across compute and virtualization environments.
• 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.
• Follow AHEAD delivery methods, quality standards, security practices, and project governance requirements.
• Maintain current knowledge of compute, virtualization, hybrid cloud, automation, and emerging data center technologies.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Enterprise compute

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Travel to client sites

Tools

VMware Cloud Foundation

vSAN

NSX

Aria

HCX

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

AHEAD is seeking a Technical Consultant, Compute & Virtualization, in the United States to design, implement, and support modern compute and virtualization solutions for clients. You will partner with project managers, architects, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities include hands-on implementation, design workshops, documentation, and knowledge transfer, with opportunities to work across VMware vSphere, Cloud Foundation,