· Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language appropriate to both executive and managerial audiences.
· Ability to effectively manage relationships with other implementation teams, application teams, stakeholders, business and customer representatives.
· Organizational skills with attention to task details, documentation and target dates.
· Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
· Team orientated, willing to share knowledge and collaborate with peers.
· Proven analytical, strategic vision drawing on strong problem-solving abilities.
· Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. ·Ability to conduct research into server, storage, virtualization issues, standards, and products.
Requirement:
· VMWARE Cloud, Virtualization, Server and Storage vendor Certifications Preferred.
· 10+ years of previous Implementing / Architecting & virtualization experience, across multiple vendor and technologies.
· In-depth understanding of Cloud, Server, Storage, and Virtualization architecture design techniques, theories, principles, and practices.
· Solid experience in implementing enterprise Cloud, Virtualization, Server and Storage systems within a broad spectrum of technologies.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION / KNOWLEDGE:
· Excellent Knowledge of Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud environments
· Excellent Knowledge of Cloud Orchestration platforms
· Intermediate knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, in HA/DR type configurations.
· Excellent knowledge of Sever hardware platforms: x86
· Excellent knowledge & working experience of VMWare ESXi, vSphere, vSAN, vRA, VRO, VROPs, vRLI, NSX-T, Horizon View
· Excellent knowledge of SAN, NAS, DAS, RAID, SCSI, Fibre Channel, Backup to Disk, clustering, encryption technologies from multiple vendors.
· Should be extremely proficient in PowerShell, Shell scripting / Python / Ansible development