Senior Technical Consultant, Modern Data Center - Azure Local & Hyper-V

20 hours, 53 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

IT Services
1K-5K
$43M raised

Description

  • Lead client discovery, assessment, planning, architecture, and design workshops.
  • Design, deploy, upgrade, migrate, and optimize Azure Local and Hyper-V environments.
  • Develop Azure Local solutions using Azure Arc, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, Failover Clustering, Windows Admin Center, and related platform services.
  • Design and implement Hyper-V failover clusters, including Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, high availability, virtual networking, and workload placement.
  • Plan and execute Azure Local cluster deployments, including hardware readiness, OS configuration, Azure registration, Arc enablement, cluster validation, and operational handoff.
  • Assess site readiness across compute, storage, networking, power, cabling, access, Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy requirements.
  • Lead virtual machine migration and modernization projects from VMware and legacy platforms to Hyper-V or Azure Local.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across Azure Local, Hyper-V, Windows Server, networking, storage, firmware, and hardware.
  • Create technical documentation and delivery artifacts such as designs, implementation plans, test plans, migration procedures, runbooks, risk registers, and as-built documentation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide knowledge transfer, mentoring, and operational guidance.

Requirements

  • Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting Hyper-V failover clusters, Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, virtual networking, and high-availability workloads.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure Local or Azure Stack HCI, including Azure Arc registration, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, cluster validation, and lifecycle operations.
  • Experience with Windows Server administration, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, Windows Failover Clustering, and PowerShell.
  • Experience with server hardware, firmware, host configuration, capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational support.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues methodically and drive them to resolution.
  • Experience creating technical documentation and communicating implementation details to clients and delivery teams.
  • Ability to independently lead technical workstreams while collaborating with project managers, architects, engineers, vendors, and client stakeholders.
  • Willingness to travel to client sites as required.
  • Experience leading multi-site Azure Local deployments or data center modernization initiatives (preferred).
  • Experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, or VMware Cloud Foundation (preferred).
  • Experience migrating workloads from VMware, Hyper-V, or legacy platforms to Azure Local (preferred).
  • Experience with Azure Migrate, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, or other Azure hybrid management services (preferred).
  • Experience with Azure Arc-enabled services, AKS enabled by Azure Arc, or Kubernetes platforms (preferred).
  • Experience with Dell, HPE, Lenovo, or other enterprise server and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms (preferred).
  • Experience with automation or infrastructure-as-code using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools (preferred).
  • Experience with disaster recovery, backup, replication, workload mobility, or hybrid cloud environments (preferred).
  • Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, or related industry certifications (preferred).
  • Consulting, professional services, systems integration, or customer-facing delivery experience (preferred).

Benefits

  • Competitive on-target earnings (OTE) with base salary and target bonus, based on experience, qualifications, and location.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Paid company holidays.
  • Paid time off.
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave.
  • Cross-department training and development opportunities.
  • Sponsored certifications and credentials for continued learning.

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