Lead Consultant (VCF SME)

About the role
As a Computacenter Lead Consultant you will help provide transformative technology solutions to the worlds most visionary companies. This takes imagination relentless attention to detail and tenacity to enable our clients to achieve their goals and delight our customers. Our top-tier partnerships with leading-edge technology manufacturers keep us immersed across the broad spectrum of the IT ecosystem.

Along with implementing and assisting with designing single and multi-vendor technology solutions you will have the opportunity to work within an industry-leading sales and technical sales team to understand our clients needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve their goals.

From strategy to fulfillment and managed services our engineering-focused solutions help clients leverage technology to achieve more than they ever thought possible. This role emphasizes multiple versions of VCF delivering high-quality design and implementation of VCF-based private and hybrid cloud solutions.

Annual Salary range: $150K - $170K USD

What youll be doing

• Works closely with Consulting Engineers and Principal Consultants to deliver services that support company objectives and align with Winning Together values.
• Develop as a technical leader in technology solutions by doing the following:
  • Receive mentoring from Principal Consultants for advancement.
  • Mentoring other Consulting Engineers.
  • Lead a team of resources on larger projects.
  • Review the deliverables of other Engineers as appropriate.
  • Act as a point of escalation for Consulting Engineers.
• Be regarded as a thought leader by recommending new technologies best practices and tools that support the growth of the business
• Assess customer environment and make design and solution recommendations.
• Act as liaison between Pre-Sales and Delivery teams.
• Provide design deployment and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions.
• Handle issues escalated by Consultants.
• Troubleshoot multi-vendor issues create remediation plans and plan execution
• Lead Project teams as assigned
• Be current with vendor offerings and technology
• Achieve and maintain Industry and Partner-focused certifications as it relate to your focus area(s)
• Be available to meet the customers IT needs
• Achievement of individual utilization targets
• Embrace and support Computacenters mission and core values.
• Lead architecture design deployment and optimization of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 including core components (SDDC Manager vSphere vCenter vSAN NSX Aria Suite).
• Integrate advanced VCF 9.0 capabilitieslike NVMe memory tiering global dedupe self-service developer portals SecOps dashboards AI-driven diagnosticsinto enterprise environments.
• Conduct workshops knowledge transfers and lead internal technical training and evangelism.
• Oversee integration with third-party storage network security backup and automation tools.
• Create and deliver technical documentation architectural blueprints best-practice guidelines and modernization roadmaps.
• Participate in or lead pre-sales efforts technical scoping proposals and RFP responses.
• Maintain deep familiarity with VMwares evolving VCF portfolio driving use of advanced services like vDefend Avi Private AI DSM and integrated automation.
• Proven expertiseideally hands-onwith VMware Cloud Foundation (including recent knowledge of VCF 9.0).
• Strong understanding of vSphere NSX vSAN Aria Suite and extended VCF services.
• VMware VCF Architect-level certification (e.g. VMware Certified Specialist Cloud Foundation 2024) or higher (VCAP VCDX preferred).
• Strong architectural lifecycle management automation hybrid cloud and workload migration experience.
• Excellent client-facing communication presentation and documentation skills.
• Able to think strategically: aligning VCF implementations with business outcome objectives.
• Experience in pre-sales proposal development and driving new revenue opportunities.
• Passion for mentorship and developing teams and technical excellence.
• Willingness to stay current with VCF and broader VMware ecosystem trends innovations and certifications.
• Travel as needed (e.g. up to 20%) to support client engagements.

What you have

• 5 years of professional experience in large enterprise environments with a focus on designing deploying and managing complex VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure solutions.
• Must be proficient in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with hands-on experience deploying and managing integrated cloud infrastructure solutions including vSphere vSAN NSX and SDDC Manager. Experience with VCF 9.0 a plus.
• Professional vendor certifications are highly preferred including:
  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Network Virtualization (NSX)
  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Data Center Virtualization (vSphere)
  • VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) certification
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Proficiency in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): Strong understanding of VCF components including vSphere vSAN NSX and SDDC Manager with the ability to design and deploy integrated cloud infrastructure solutions. Experience with the
  ARIA Suite is a plus.
• Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex VCF concepts in customer-facing discussions internal education sessions and industry conferences.
• Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with Pre-Sales Delivery and application teams ensuring seamless integration of VCF solutions.
• Customer-Focused Delivery: Demonstrated confidence in delivering customer-facing discussions providing clear and actionable insights into VCF solutions.
• Project Leadership: Ability to lead VCF project teams ensuring alignment with project goals timelines and customer expectations.
• Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying current with VCF offerings industry trends and emerging virtualization and networking technologies.
• Subject matter expert within your focused technology stack
• Ability to deploy complex multi-technology solutions
• Ability to participate in the design of complex technical solutions and provide input into bid project and technical documents
• Ability to function within a large virtual technical team with good negotiation skills and who is a self-starter.
• Excellent interpersonal written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work independently.
• Experience with Linux and shell scripting (bash/zsh/sh)
• Experience with troubleshooting in large complex environments
• Experience and/or understanding of Disaster Recovery Business Continuity and High-Availability concepts
• Experience and/or knowledge of current industry-accepted Backup and Recovery concepts and practices
• Demonstrated confidence in leading customer-facing discussions.

What you can expect

Theres so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health future financial security and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source transform and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation enabling users and their business. Were a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20000 people the US we support some of the countrys best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine CA; Norcross GA; Plano TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. Experience:

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