Senior Enterprise Compute & Virtualization Consultant

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD helps enterprises transform by delivering compute and virtualization platform expertise. The Technical Consultant role designs, implements, and supports modern compute and virtualization solutions for diverse client environments.

The candidate participates in workshops, designs and deploys VMware-based infrastructure, collaborates with cross-functional teams, creates detailed docs, and travels to client sites as needed to ensure successful deployments.

Qualifications

• Five+ years designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere: ESXi, vCenter, clusters, resource mgmt, HA, lifecycle operations.
• Linux hands-on experience.
• Experience with server hardware, firmware, host configuration, capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational support.
• Experience developing technical documentation and communicating implementation details to clients/delivery teams.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues methodically and drive issues to resolution.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating with project managers, 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 (VMware vSphere, Cloud Foundation) with exposure to Hyper-V and Kubernetes where 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, 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 to 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

Linux

Server hardware

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Communication

Travel readiness

Collaboration

Tools

VMware Cloud Foundation

vSAN

NSX

HCX

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

AHEAD helps enterprises transform by delivering compute and virtualization platform expertise. The Technical Consultant role designs, implements, and supports modern compute and virtualization solutions for diverse client environments.

The candidate participates in workshops, designs and deploys VMware-based infrastructure, collaborates with cross-functional teams, creates detailed docs, and travels to client sites as needed to ensure successful deployments.