Consulting Architect

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The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Architect to join our Professional Services team in EMEA. The Architect will work in the Services organization to help clients establish architectural vision and direction. He or she will help clients design, deploy, and migrate complex applications as well as work with software developers, consultants, and engineers to create scalable and repeatable solutions for partners.

About the Team

The Nutanix Professional Services team delivers a strong influence on the success of each Nutanix implementation by its customers. The Services function ensures success by engaging with customers in the pre-sales and post-sales stages by assisting in their software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy and architecture. Besides helping customers implement Nutanix products successfully, the Professional Services team, working with our partners, ensures customer success in fully implementing their virtualized and software-defined data centers. The Nutanix Professional Services Consulting function includes assessment, design, implementation, integration, and automation services as well as project management.

Your Role

As an Architect, you will work closely with Nutanix Customers on strategic datacenter modernization and automation & cloud projects. You will produce best of breed technical designs incorporating Nutanix and complementing technologies. You will take technical leadership in the design and build of Nutanix and other Virtualization products with a focus on simplifying and automating the IT landscape.

You are an advanced level virtualization technology specialist, passionate about cloud technology. You have advanced competencies in infrastructure or network virtualization and data center operations.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for leading workshops and consulting engagements with customers
• You will deliver pre-packaged Nutanix consulting solutions in a timely and effective manner
• You will take ownership of business outcomes for virtualization & modernization projects through requirements capture and technical governance
• You will craft detailed design documents and perform hands-on implementation work
• You will work with our project managers on project budget and all aspects of efficient delivery
• You will provide technical input and review to our projects in a pre-sales stage
• You will advise and consult internal groups by providing accurate effort estimations
• You have visible IT Industry thought leadership on relevant topics related to enterprise IT solutions, Cloud-based services, and infrastructure
• You can display commercial awareness by identifying future services opportunities within a project or customer
• You actively drive practice activities such as development of standard methodologies, intellectual property captures and creation, quality assurance, and peer reviews
• You maintain current knowledge of the entire Nutanix product stack

Desired experience & skills

• Experienced track record of managing and delivering Professional Services projects in the Enterprise space.
• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing virtualization technology solutions and large-scale IT migration projects
• Sound understanding of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) concepts and implementations
• Validated working and hands-on experience with Nutanix AHV or other Industry-leading virtualization products (e.g., vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, SRM, vCloud Director, or vRealize Operations Manager) within large-scale IT production data centers
• At least 4 years' experience in designing and implementing modern & scalable datacenter infrastructure virtualization projects regarding compute, network, and storage
• Integration of Public cloud services with on-premise technologies from Nutanix, Microsoft, VMware, etc.
• Planning, migration, and operation of Cloud-based applications in Hybrid or Cloud-only configurations.
• A Nutanix NCP or VMware VCP (or higher) certification would be highly considered
• Industry Certifications for Datacenter and Networking (e.g., LPIC, MSCA, CCNA, and equivalents)
• Good background in Windows and Linux systems configuration and migration.
• Knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell will be an advantage
• Communication: Native English Speaker. Additional European languages would be beneficial.

Work Arrangement

Remote: This position is primarily remote. There is no specific in-office requirement; however, you may be required to come into a local office for specific purposes or travel to other locations based on business needs.