
Data Center Architect
EVOTEK
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
SwitchingVMware
About the role
- Provides leadership in the development and strategic direction of new products, processes, and techniques.
- Acts as primary consultant on large projects that affect the organization's long-term objectives / strategy.
- Responsible for carrying out service delivery for customers throughout the deployment lifecycle (plan, design, implement, optimize, document).
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Delivery Engineering Managers, Project Managers, and domain/practice/discipline Architects.
- Demonstrate a high-level of design and implementation experience, highly motivated, excited about learning new products/technologies and able to effectively communicate (world-class customer service and maintaining a strong customer relationship).
- Drive and responsible for final design meetings with customers.
- Staging and Implementation of the technologies listed.
- Document specific build information.
- Perform training on the technologies listed as it pertains directly to what was configured as part of the solution.
- Provide project status on a regular basis, while answering customer questions timely and professionally.
- Create project deliverables such as requirements documents, cabling details, cutover plans, resiliency test plans, and drawings.
- Provide informal customer knowledge transfer if required.
Requirements
- Demonstrated technical consulting experience with the ability to influence and lead technical architecture and design discussions.
- Ability to effectively facilitate meetings with all experience and leadership levels both internal and external.
- Possesses a broad and deep technology knowledge and the ability to architect a solution by mapping a business problem to an end-to-end technology solution.
- Proven experience with advanced Data Center architecture, capabilities, design, and implementation.
- 10+ years of expertise and experience in Storage and Virtualization technologies.
- Experience with Storage, Compute, Virtualization, and Hyper-converged abilities.
- Experience with Cisco UCS, Nutanix, VMware vSphere, Netapp.
- Background with Fibre Channel switching (MDS, Nexus FCoE, Brocade).
- Skilled in Ethernet switching as it pertains to IP storage & hypervisor host connectivity.
- Experience in Cisco HyperFlex HX. + include Pure Storage, VMware Horizon View, VMware Site Recovery Manager a plus.
- A general understanding of Layer 3 Routing Protocols.
- Additional technologies that may be encountered include Veeam, Dell-EMC VxRail/VxRack, VMware vSAN, VMware vRealize Operations Manager, and Cohesity.
Benefits
- Salary commensurate with years’ of experience, technical expertise and geographic location.
- Salary range: $150,000 to $180,000.
- Performance bonuses.
- Benefits package that includes 100% paid medical, dental and vision for the employee.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Strong company culture.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Annual company overnight retreat
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
technical consultingData Center architectureStorage technologiesVirtualization technologiesHyper-converged technologiesCisco UCSNutanixVMware vSphereNetappFibre Channel switching
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcustomer servicerelationship buildingmeeting facilitationinfluencingproblem-solvingtrainingdocumentationproject management