As a modern cloud consultancy and managed services provider, we guide enterprises across most industry sectors through digital transformation projects deploying advanced IT solutions.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Consultant to join our Cloud Infrastructure team. You will be part of an inclusive, friendly, supportive, and high performing organisation that is challenged to deliver excellence across a diverse range of cloud technologies.
By joining our team, you will receive an excellent remuneration package, benefits and a personalised development plan enabling you to meet your individual aspirations.
The Role, Purpose and Mission
An Xtravirt Senior Consultant understands a situation, employs an objective manner that builds trust and confidence, then applies honesty, integrity, professionalism, tools and communication skills to meet or exceed customer goals and expectations in a managed way that enables the customer to achieve success through their technical and business defined outcomes.
- Lifecycle customers: The role supports Xtravirt’s strategy and team plans by championing, identifying and driving opportunities to support transition, growth and retention of customers to lifecycle relationships, collaborating with other teams to achieve the collective goal.
- Customer success: You are also a key contributor to ongoing success for our customers, customer satisfaction and Net Promoter Scoring targets.
You’ll be able to demonstrate an excellent understanding and knowledge of the VMware VCF platform and have engaged with enterprise customers to evangelise, design and implement solutions based on the customer’s specific use case and requirements.
- With an understanding of the bigger picture, you can design solutions that meet the customers’ underlying business objectives rather than just implementing the technical product
- Facilitate the customer’s journey towards emerging technology solutions and supporting them through today’s complex digital world
- Create the best architecture designs, datacentre operations and end-to-end computing solutions appropriate for the customer
- Consultants are pivotal to our business offering customer engagement and on occasion you may support pre-sales engagement for the creation of technical proposals
Key Skills
You’ll be able to demonstrate an excellent understanding, knowledge and significant experience of the VMware Cloud Foundation Platform, core products, infrastructure and other adjacent products or technologies. You should have engaged with customers to evangelise, design, and implement solutions based on the customer’s specific use case and requirements.
The position requires high quality and in-depth technical knowledge along with strong communication skills. You should be able to lead or deliver services from requirements gathering and design, to deployment and operational readiness, and have significant experience across multiple product areas such as:
- VMware Cloud Foundation Platform (VCF 4.x – 5.x)
- VMware vSphere Foundation
- VMware Aria Automation
Desirable Skills
All customers are focused on their desired business outcomes which extend beyond the deployment of technologies. Therefore, having expanded knowledge, experience and skills will assist you in ensuring the technology is successfully adopted and customer goals are achieved.
Expanded Infrastructure Deployment / Operate Manage and Readiness Skills
- VMware NSX
- VMware Live Recovery
- VMware vSphere with Tanzu
- VMware Avi Advanced Load Balancer
- VMware Site Recovery Manager
- VMware vSphere Replication
- VMware HCX
- vCloud Director (vCD)
- Private AI with NVIDIA
- Product lifecycle processes, such as certificate replacement, password rotation and product upgrades.
If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have a strong foundation with at least some of the products and technologies and have the aptitude and drive to grow, learn and develop with our world class team, then we want to hear from you.
Other Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working
- Pension and life assurance
- Wellbeing, financial and legal support
- Employee Benefits platform
- Long service awards
- Regular evaluation and salary reviews
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Staff recognition awards
- Regular company and social events
