Responsibilities :
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
Additional Responsibilities:
Nice to have skills:
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, Nutanix AHV, 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, Nutanix AHV & 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.
Deep understanding on SAN / NAS design, deployments and migrations
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
Technical and Professional Requirements:
Expert knowledge on the following technologies - ESXi, vSAN, VCF, KVM, Neutron, CEPH, OpenStack, Compute (Blade), SAN (DellEMC, HPE, Pure, NetApp), NAS (NetApp, ISILON), Object, Backup (Commvault, DellEMC, Veeam, Cohesity), Physical Hosting, OS (Win, Lin), DB (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MongoDB)
SAN, NAS, Backup and DR solutions
