Senior Consultant - Nigeria at VMware

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We are recruiting to fill the vacant position

Posting Title: Senior Consultant, Nigeria

Requisition Number 51510BR
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description

• Why work for our Division The global VMware Professional Services Organization (PSO) influences the success of each VMware implementation.
• The PSO team is dedicated to the success of the customer and their virtualization strategy and implementation.
• The PSO team ensures that VMware customers are successfully implementing their business plans from adoption all the way to a fully functioning virtualized datacenter.
• The PSO Organization includes Consulting Services, Advisory Services, Project Management, Education Services and Technical Account Management (TAM) Services.
• The role of the Consulting team is to provide specialist guidance to our enterprise customers on how best to design, implement and integrate VMware technology.
• The emphasis of the role changes depending on the Consultant level but is largely focused on; customer facing delivery (70%), IP and best practice creation (10%) and team collaboration (20%).

Responsibilities

• Must enjoy working with leading edge technology and being an intrinsic part of a fantastic team.
• Maintain your knowledge of the core VMware product line as well as your specialist area (End User Computing, Cloud or Cloud Management)
• Independently conduct and manage engagements with our Enterprise customers
• Assist in the development of our consulting service offerings as well as developing white papers and best practices Required skills and attributes
• A high level of energy and enthusiasm
• Multiple years of actively delivering IT infrastructure projects ideally based on VMware technologies.
• Strong documentation and technical writing skills
• Excellent and confident communications and interpersonal skills
• Solid and practical knowledge of VMware vSphere.

Certification and Education

• Currently holds the VCP certification and ideally holds VMware DCA/DCD certifications
• Any certifications from vendors such as Cisco, EMC, Citrix and Microsoft are advantageous

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• A broad understanding of the core capabilities of VMware Cloud Infrastructure stack however training will be provided
• Several years' experience in customer-facing positions as a professional services consultant
• vSphere design experience in medium to large environments
• Experience delivering one or more of the following projects;
• Server or desktop virtualization
• Private/Public Cloud implementation
• Tier1 application migration
• Server consolidation or refresh
• Linux/Solaris administrative knowledge
• Familiarity with systems management concepts, processes and standards including capacity/performance management and tuning; and storage and network management
• Experience of automation through the use of scripting
• Experience of presenting at a user group, trade show or similar is highly desirable

Team Values:

• Collaboration above isolationism
• Respect
• Trust
• Good natured fun

Application Closing Date
Not Stated.

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