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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.
How To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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