Consultant - VMware Cloud Foundation
For this role candidates must have recent VCF9 and private cloud experience.
Xtravirt is a UK leader in private cloud consulting and managed services, specialising in VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware-based digital infrastructure. For over 18 years, Xtravirt has supported enterprises across multiple sectors with the design, delivery and ongoing optimisation of secure, scalable and efficient private cloud environments. Recognised as a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, Xtravirt is committed to helping organisations accelerate their digital transformation and realise the full value of their cloud investments .
The Role, Purpose and Mission:
An Xtravirt 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 go al.
- 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 VMware by Broadcom Portfolio, having engaged with enterprise customers to evangelise, design and implement solutions based on the customer’s specific use case and requirements in the areas of:
- Understanding the customer landscape and then designing or feeding into 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.
Required 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 5.x – 9.x)
- VMware Aria Operations
- VMware Aria Au tomation
Desirable Skills:
All customers are focused on their desired business outcomes which extend beyond the deployment of technologies. Therefore, having expanded k nowledge, 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 Advanced Network and Security Services
- VMware Site Recovery Manager
- VMware vSphere Replication
- VMware HCXvCloud Director (vCD)
- Private AI with NVIDIA
Product lifecycle processes, such as certificate replacement, password rotation and product upgrades.
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