Senior Data Center Architect

Title:Senior Data Center Architect

Location: Remote

Reports to: Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include design install, and support server, network, virtualization, and hyper-converged solutions provided. Assist in Pre-Sales and post-sales activities including, but not limited to; installation, configuration, design, and consulting expertise with networking and server virtualization technologies including VMware suite, vSAN, NSX, servers and blade servers and hyper-converged solutions. Provide successful assessments, deployments, upgrades, knowledge transfer and documentation to some of Sterling’s most strategic customers. Technical certifications for the above technologies and a diverse background in supporting enterprise IT datacenters, highly desired.

• Work with Sales, Presales, and Delivery teams to assess, plan, design, deploy, and document server, network, virtualization, and hyper-converged solutions into customer networks.
• Demonstrated assessment, planning, designing, and deploying competencies.
• Demonstrated planning, designing, and deploying competencies with systems such as VMware vSphere products for software defined datacenters including vSAN, NSX, vRealize suite, and Site Recovery Manager for disaster recovery.
• Some exposure to automation platforms and techniques such as VMware vRA/vRO
• Experience with virtualization technologies with various vendor hardware, such as Dell, HPE and Cisco UCS.

The ideal candidate can address all the previously mentioned technologies, speak to them professionally, plan for and implement these solutions, document to DoD standards the finalized deployments, and hand-off to the customer in collaboration with the project team.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of VMware design, implementation, administration & troubleshooting experience
• Excellent analytical ability and communications skills
• Interpersonal relationship skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Time-management skills
• Customer service skills and experience
• Strong organization abilities
• Eligible for DoD clearance
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.

Sterling Computers is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin or any other characteristics protected under federal, state or applicable local law.