Data Center Associate Architect

Presidio is growing! We're looking for a Data Center Associate Architect to join our talented delivery team! The Associate Architect will be expected to lead the delivery of projects globally, while striving to ensure executional excellence by creating supreme customer experiences for all assigned projects. This role combines technical ability and experience with polished communication skills to deploy a variety of solutions that could focus on traditional, hyper-converged, or hybrid data center solutions. This position reports to...
Responsibilities Include:

• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) throughout Data Center consulting engagements.
• Be a trusted advisor to internal and external clients and SMEs.
• Lead projects and the deployment of Data Center solutions for customers of all sizes and different design requirements.
• Leading conversations and technical white boarding sessions in front of clients and/or peers.
• Ability to excel both independently and with a cross-functional team of engineers on client projects and on-going professional services engagements.
• Ability to see a project through fruition from assignment to completion with minimal guidance.
• Maintain a billable target of at least 70%.
• Post implementation support and troubleshooting for clients on occasion.
• Technical writing skills to author professional documentation for client review.
• Peer review other engineers documentation for completeness and accuracy.
• Ability to track, manage, and record time spent across numerous projects within the defined deadline(s).
• Mentor junior engineers on all of the various types of data center projects.

Required Skills and Professional Experience:

• Minimum 8+ years of Data Center engineering experience; experience with professional services preferred.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent.

• Extensive experience in VMware vSphere up to and including VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1.

• Experience with some or all of the following storage platforms:

• Dell, HPE, Net App, Everpure

• Experience with some or all of the following:

• Cisco UCS, VMware VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix

• Strong work ethic and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize work, and meet timelines in a fast-paced environment.

• Self-motivated and a desire to succeed.

• Relentless attention to detail.

Required Certifications:

• Must also be willing and able to contribute to the teams overall certification objectives and requirements, which are reviewed on a quarterly basis.

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:

• Technical certifications are strongly desired in VMware, Nutanix, Dell, and/or AWS.

• Firm understanding of Data Center networking best practices & architecture.

• Experience with one or both of the following hypervisors:

• Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix Acropolis

• Experience with SAN Switching / Fabrics:

• Cisco MDS, Brocade, iSCSI

• Experience with Cloud technologies AWS, Azure, or Google:

• Migration Experience migrating variety of workloads

• Architecture recommendations

• Analysis, sizing, and cost estimate a plus.

• Developing maintenance processes - Automating cleanup, Resource group strategies

• Deploying, configuring, and securing components - Storage accounts, Virtual machines, Backup vaults, Migrations, Web applications

• Container runtime and orchestration Kubernetes, Docker

• Storage solutions - FSXn for ONTAP, Dell Apex File & Block

• VMC on AWS

• Azure VMware Solution (AVS)

• NC2 on AWS or Azure.

• Experience with some scripting languages:

• Python, Bash, PowerShell

Travel Requirements:

• There is no travel requirement in this particular role.