Location

Troy, MI

Travel

25%

Job Description

The Virtualization Architect?s role is to analyze, design and plan architecture according to best practices, while ensuring high levels of data quality and availability, including analysis and integration of new customers and projects into the Architecture. This individual is responsible for the design, specifications, sizing, development, and oversight of policies, standards, and procedures to ensure a consistent architecture and management throughout the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language appropriate to both executive, managerial, and technical audiences.
• Ability to effectively manage relationships with other architecture teams, application owners, stakeholders, business, and customer representatives.
• Organizational skills with attention to task details, documentation, and target dates.
• Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Team orientated, willing to share knowledge and collaborate with peers.
• Proven analytical, strategic vision drawing on strong problem-solving abilities.
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment. ?Ability to conduct research into server, storage, virtualization issues, standards, and products.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, computer programming, or similar.
• Excellent Knowledge of Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud environments
• Excellent Knowledge of Cloud Orchestration and Automation platforms
• Excellent knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, and virtual appliances, including HA/DR configurations.
• Excellent knowledge of Sever hardware platforms: x86
• Excellent knowledge of VMWare vSphere, SRM, Replication, Usage Meter, vSAN
• Excellent knowledge of SAN, NAS, DAS, RAID, SCSI, Fibre Channel, Backup, clustering, and encryption technologies from multiple vendors.
• VMWARE Cloud, Virtualization, Server, and Storage vendor Certifications Preferred.
• Five plus years of previous architecture experience, across multiple vendors and technologies.
• In-depth understanding of Cloud, Server, Storage, Virtualization, Security, and Monitoring/Management architecture design techniques, theories, principles, and practices.
• Solid experience architecting enterprise Cloud, Virtualization, Server, and Storage systems within a broad spectrum of technologies.