Senior Technical Consultant, Modern Data Center – Azure, Hyper-V

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Facilitate client discovery, assessment, planning, architecture, and design workshops.

• Design, implement, upgrade, migrate, and optimize Azure Local and Hyper-V environments.

• Develop Azure Local solutions utilizing Azure Arc, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, Failover Clustering, Windows Admin Center, and other related platform services.

• Design and deploy Hyper-V failover clusters, which include Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, high availability, virtual networking, and workload placement.

• Plan and carry out Azure Local cluster deployments, addressing hardware readiness, operating system configuration, Azure registration, Arc enablement, cluster validation, and operational transition.

• Evaluate site readiness regarding compute, storage, networking, power, cabling, access, Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy requirements.

• Oversee virtual machine migration and modernization initiatives from VMware and legacy virtualization systems to Hyper-V or Azure Local.

• Utilize Azure Migrate, PowerShell, Windows Admin Center, and inherent Microsoft platform utilities for migrations and lifecycle management.

• Diagnose complex infrastructure challenges across Azure Local, Hyper-V, Windows Server, networking, storage, firmware, and hardware.

• Generate high-level and low-level designs, implementation plans, build guides, testing plans, migration procedures, runbooks, risk registers, and as-built documentation.

• Collaborate with teams specializing in networking, storage, security, cloud, data protection, automation, project management, and vendor relations.

• Convey technical decisions, risks, dependencies, issues, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Assist in technical scoping, estimations, statements of work, proposals, and change requests.

• Deliver knowledge transfer and operational guidance to clients and AHEAD team members.

• Mentor team members and contribute to their career development and skill enhancement.

• Contribute to repeatable delivery methodologies, automation, reference architectures, and best technical practices.

• Adhere to AHEAD delivery methodologies, quality standards, security protocols, and project governance requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of five years of experience in designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments.

• Proven hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server.

• Experience in designing, deploying, and troubleshooting Hyper-V failover clusters, Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, virtual networking, and high-availability workloads.

• Hands-on expertise with Azure Local or Azure Stack HCI, including Azure Arc registration, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, cluster validation, and lifecycle operations.

• Familiarity with Windows Server administration, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, Windows Failover Clustering, and PowerShell.

• Experience with server hardware, firmware, host configuration, capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational support.

• Ability to methodically troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and drive them to resolution.

• Experience in creating technical documentation and effectively communicating implementation details to clients and delivery teams.

• Capacity to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through clear communication, relationship building, expectation management, and professional follow-through.

• Ability to independently manage technical workstreams while collaborating with project managers, architects, engineers, vendors, and client stakeholders.

• Willingness to travel to client sites as necessary for engagements.

• Preferred: experience in leading multi-site Azure Local deployments or data center modernization projects.

• Preferred: knowledge of VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation, or related technologies.

• Preferred: experience with workload migrations to Azure Local; Azure Migrate, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud; Azure Arc-enabled services, AKS enabled by Azure Arc, or Kubernetes.

• Preferred: familiarity with Dell, HPE, Lenovo, or other enterprise server and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms.

• Preferred: proficiency in PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation and infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Preferred: knowledge in disaster recovery, backup, replication, workload mobility, or hybrid cloud environments.

• Preferred: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, or related industry certifications.

• Preferred: experience in consulting, professional services, systems integration, or customer-facing delivery roles.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• 401(k).

• Paid company holidays.

• Paid time off.

• Paid parental and caregiver leave.

• Access to a multi-million-dollar technology lab.

• Opportunities for cross-department training and development.

• Sponsored certifications and credentials to promote continued learning.

• Option to opt-out of AI application and resume review.

• Option to opt-out of interview recording and transcription without penalty.