Senior Resident Consultant - Virtualisation

About the role

Nutanix is looking for a Senior Resident Consultant to join its Services Delivery team, which delivers day-one virtualisation consulting and day-two operations support. You will work with customers' IT teams onsite and remotely, helping them plan and run Nutanix environments. You report to the Senior Manager of Professional Services in a hybrid model, working from the office two to three days per week, with 20-40% travel including domestic client sites and possible overseas trips.

Key responsibilities

• Take part in service delivery engagements and act as a key member of the team for Nutanix product implementation, operation and administration.
• Help customers plan strategic implementations and operational support using your knowledge of Nutanix products.
• Deliver Nutanix implementations and/or virtual infrastructure operations support.
• Work with architects and subject matter experts to apply best practices and speed up customer adoption.
• Assess customers' IT environments and identify improvements.
• Collaborate with the Sales team on opportunities, status and reporting.
• Support practice development and take part in service offerings or spot engagements.

Required profile

• Experience in systems administration and virtualisation technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Nutanix AOS/AHV and/or Hyper-V, VMware ESXi or other converged/hyperconverged platforms.
• Ability to independently analyse and diagnose complex problems across platforms.
• Customer-centric approach, good communication skills and confidence in whiteboarding, presentations and documentation.
• One of the following certifications: VMware (VCP or VCAP) or Nutanix Certified Professional - Multi-cloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI).

Required skills

• Workload migrations, including P2V and V2V.
• Storage and data protection: replication, snapshots, backup and restore.
• Automation and scripting; Python or PowerShell is desirable.
• Desired: NCP-MCA and NCM-MCI certifications, which the company supports.