Overall Experience (in yrs.) 15+ years in IT industry with at least 10 years of experience in IT solution design
Location Stuttgart - Germany
Skill Summary
Technical skills (Required - Mandatory) • Expert knowledge on the following technologies - ESXi, vSAN, VCF, KVM, Neutron, CEPH, OpenStack, Compute (Blade), SAN (IBM, DellEMC, HPE), NAS (NetApp, ISILON), Object, Backup (DellEMC, Veeam), Physical Hosting, OS (Win, Lin), DB (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MongoDB)
• SAN, NAS, Backup and DR solutions
Technical skills (Required - Nice to have) • Deep understanding and Experience in migration of traditional DC to virtual infrastructure
• Private Cloud experience desired (migrating from traditional/virtual datacenter to cloud services)
• Hands-on experience on at least 2 / 3 Hypervisor (VMware, Hyper-V, OVM, Xen, KVM etc.) technology is desired
• Comprehensive knowledge on designing Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) based setup using VMware or Microsoft
• Deep understanding of two or three virtualization platforms VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V & Red Hat RHEV
• In depth knowledge on virtualization techniques, virtual switches, virtual storage and cloud services modelling
• Clear understanding of Networking, Blade/Rack Servers & Unified Storages and Converged Systems is required.
• Knowledge on Hyper Converged Infrastructure is added advantage
• Good knowledge of VMware NSX
• VMWare Certified Professional -- Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) or Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) or HP MASE
Language skills needed English / German (optional)
People skills Lead 10-15 team members
Soft skills • Capability in understanding and evaluating multi-vendor product offerings
• Ability to understand customer Business process and help developer convert to relevant workflow models using Orchestrator tools
Area of responsibilities Skill Level
• Plan, research, and develop Data Center architecture for Private/Hybrid Cloud setup at Customer premises
• Present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
• Understand customer functional and technical constraints as well as expectations from future Datacenter Infrastructure
• Develop solutions, proposal, effort estimation and presentation for DC design Compute, Storage and backup
• Develop Architecture, high level and low level physical logical DC, storage and back design drawings and design documents.
• Ensure technical solutions meet the needs of business such as flexible, cost, performance, and security; Develop Data Center architecture and plan the direction of the platforms towards a 3-5-year technology horizon
• Identify AS-IS datacenter setup, review, and recommend potential opportunities for smooth migration, service quality improvement, and operational efficiency
• Liaise with internal technology partners and external vendors to ensure effective communication and collaboration to ensure solution completeness
• Provide design level support to Virtualization & Infra implementation team for project delivery and problem resolutions
• Understand and analyze detailed BOM of various virtualization and infra solutions from partner OEMs
• Provide training as required and mentor technical team Expert
