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OrangeIS seek Senior Virtualisation Consultants

OrangeIS Enterprise Solutions is looking for a senior virtualisation consultant to join an existing team of enterprise delivery consultants. The senior consultant will be responsible for delivering medium to large scale virtualisation projects as well as following and contributing to detailed design work packages.

The role is focused on VMware solutions; however a solid understanding of the broader virtualisation landscape and vendor products such as PlateSpin, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer is required.

You will have core expertise in VMware products; ESX, VI3, vCenter, vSphere, and a VMware Certified VCP is also required. A firm understanding of the infrastructure to support virtualisation environments including network and storage technologies is also a prerequisite.

The successful candidate should come from a solid support background, with previous experience of working as both a technical consultant as well as a 3rd Line Support engineer.

In addition to your primary job function, you will also be required to work alongside the existing OrangeIS technical team, supporting projects which will range from Microsoft systems implementations through to helping with technical queries.

Role/Principal Accountabilities:

• Day-to-day duties will range from assisting in technical pre-sales activities, through to high-level and detailed design phases to actual implementation on medium to large projects.
• Capability to design virtualisation platforms for small and large scale Virtualisation projects (3 to 100 ESX host servers). - Provide technical authority and responsibility for VMware and other mainstream virtualisation solutions.
• Work with the sales team to qualify and quantify multiple virtualisation opportunities.
• Significant client site attendance during project fulfilment activities.
• Qualify hardware and select deployment platforms.
• Analyse business requests and provide solutions to meet requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical design documentation.

Skills & Experience Required:
• Developed, Designed and Deployed virtualisation environments with over 15 physical nodes or 150 virtual server instances.
• Proven experience in developing enterprise infrastructures which are reliable, resilient and easy to maintain.
• Be able to explain the complexities and implications of virtualisation, application migration issues, testing requirements and database migrations.
• Practical experience with the full VMware suite including ESX/HA/DRS/vMotion and storage vMotion/SRM/VDI/VCB/LCM.
• Experience with hardware virtualisation technologies.
• Knowledge of SAN storage systems incl HP, Dell, Netapp, HDS arrays.
• VCP Certification. PlateSpin CPSA Certification.
• Practical P2V/V2V experience with VMware Converter and PlateSpin Migrate.
• Active Directory
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, knowledge of LAN/WAN networking, VPN
• Previous 3rd Line desktop and Server Support
• Must have good customer facing and presentation skills.
• Capability to run technical workshops.

Desirable:
• Other virtualisation platforms such as Xen, Hyper-V.
• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop.
• Technical knowledge and appreciation of a wide range of Windows/Storage/Networking technologies is desirable.
• Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 experience.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008
• Storage virtualisation solutions such as FalconStor and HP Lefthand.
• Knowledge of desktop virtualisation solutions.
• Knowledge of networking topologies and 10GigE networks. In particular Cisco and HP hardware.
• ITIL/Operational Readiness aware.

You will be commutable on a daily basis to the City office and able to travel to the Coleshill (Birmingham) office and client sites as and when required.

This is a fantastic role within a fast-growing company where you will get the opportunity and scope to lead some of the most exciting virtualisation projects around.

The company’s plan for continued growth means that the future opportunity is also an enormous one to make your own with potential for further senior positions to be achieved within the organisation.

For further information please contact the OrangeIS Group recruitment team.

By email: recruitment@orangeis.com
Or by telephone: +44 (0) 845 262 1919

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Posted: 21/06/2010