- Build and maintain confidence of colleagues and customers
- Be able to conduct small to medium engagements with customers independently
- Maintain and develop the knowledge of the entire VMware product line
- Conduct pre-packaged VMware consulting solutions in a timely and effective manner
- Assist in the development of standard reusable VMware productized consulting service offerings, including definition of tasks, deliverables and standard estimates
- Help to document best practices in developing and deploying VMware solutions, and feed them into our knowledge base for reuse by customers and partners
- Provide regular update/report to the team
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in which 3 years must be in customer-facing positions as a professional services consultant or engineer, preferably with an Internet or Big 4 consulting organization
- Solid experience with modern software development methodologies, with emphasis on software and hardware architecture, and infrastructure design and development
- Strong in infrastructure architecture and design of complex distributed systems environments, including failover techniques, recovery/rollback, and application partitioning
- Strong practical Unix or Linux systems administration skills
- Proficiency in application software development for one or more of the Linux, Unix (e.g. Solaris), Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems. Systems programming or OS internal level skills would be an advantage
- Excellent knowledge in computer server architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet) and multi-processor designs (SMP)
- Familiarity with systems management concepts, processes and standards (e.g. SNMP); capacity/performance management and tuning; and storage and network management
- Understanding of modern IT production datacenter and Internet (ISP/ASP) hosting operations
- Strong Perl programming/scripting skills desired. Programming in C/C++ and Unix shell are also an advantage
- A good practical understanding of Web-based application development, including cgi-bin, and Apache or IIS server platforms
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel up to 50 percent of the time, including international
- B.S./B.A./M.S. degree or equivalent technical training
