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

🕒 August 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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AHEAD

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5.7M Venture Round - AHEAD on 2024-05

Consulting • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

AHEAD is a technology consulting and systems-integration firm that accelerates digital transformation by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. The company specializes in AI transformation and AI-enabled infrastructure, data platform and platform/workload modernization, secure and resilient architectures, operational excellence, and managed services including IT lifecycle and procurement (AHEAD Hatch) and hardware integration (AHEAD Foundry). AHEAD delivers end-to-end services from strategy and financial consulting to build and run operations, partners with major cloud and infrastructure vendors (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, VMware, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, etc. ), and serves enterprise clients across industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sector.

📋 Description

• Lead client discovery, assessment, planning, architecture, and design workshops • Design, deploy, upgrade, migrate, and optimize Azure Local and Hyper-V environments • Develop Azure Local solutions using Azure Arc, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, Failover Clustering, Windows Admin Center, and related platform services • Design and implement Hyper-V failover clusters, including Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, high availability, virtual networking, and workload placement • Plan and execute Azure Local cluster deployments, including hardware readiness, operating system configuration, Azure registration, Arc enablement, cluster validation, and operational handoff • Assess site readiness across compute, storage, networking, power, cabling, access, Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy requirements • Lead virtual machine migration and modernization projects from VMware and legacy virtualization platforms to Hyper-V or Azure Local • Use Azure Migrate, PowerShell, Windows Admin Center, and native Microsoft platform utilities for migrations and lifecycle operations • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across Azure Local, Hyper-V, Windows Server, networking, storage, firmware, and hardware • Create high-level and low-level designs, implementation plans, build guides, test plans, migration procedures, runbooks, risk registers, and as-built documentation • Collaborate with networking, storage, security, cloud, data protection, automation, project management, and vendor teams • Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, issues, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Support technical scoping, estimates, statements of work, proposals, and change requests • Provide knowledge transfer and operational guidance to client and AHEAD team members • Mentor team members and contribute to career development and skills growth • Contribute to repeatable delivery methods, automation, reference architectures, and technical best practices • Follow AHEAD delivery methods, quality standards, security practices, and project governance requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments • Demonstrated hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server • Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting Hyper-V failover clusters, Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, virtual networking, and high-availability workloads • Hands-on experience with Azure Local or Azure Stack HCI, including Azure Arc registration, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, cluster validation, and lifecycle operations • Experience 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 troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues methodically and drive them to resolution • Experience creating technical documentation and communicating implementation details to clients and delivery teams • Ability to deliver high levels of customer satisfaction through clear communication, relationship building, expectation management, and professional follow-through • Ability to independently lead technical workstreams while collaborating with project managers, architects, engineers, vendors, and client stakeholders • Willingness to travel to client sites as required by engagements • Preferred: experience leading multi-site Azure Local deployments or data center modernization initiatives • Preferred: VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation, or related technologies • Preferred: 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: Dell, HPE, Lenovo, or other enterprise server and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms • Preferred: PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation and infrastructure-as-code tools • Preferred: disaster recovery, backup, replication, workload mobility, or hybrid cloud environments • Preferred: Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, or related industry certifications • Preferred: consulting, professional services, systems integration, or customer-facing delivery experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Multi-million-dollar technology lab • Cross-department training and development • Sponsored certifications and credentials for continued learning • AI application and resume review opt-out • Interview recording and transcription opt-out without penalty