Staff Consulting Architect - Professional Services Saudi Arabia - Nutanix

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The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Consulting Architect to join our Professional Services team in Saudi Arabia. The Architect will work in the Services organization to help clients establish architectural vision and direction. He or she will help clients design deploy and migrate complex applications as well as work with software developers consultants and engineers to create scalable and repeatable solutions for partners.

About the Team

The Nutanix Professional Services team delivers a strong influence on the success of each Nutanix implementation by its customers. The Services function ensures success by engaging with customers in the presales and postsales stages by assisting in their softwaredefined data center (SDDC) strategy and architecture. Besides helping customers implement Nutanix products successfully the Professional Services team working with our partners ensures customer success in fully implementing their virtualized and softwaredefined data centers. The Nutanix Professional Services Consulting function includes assessment design implementation integration and automation services as well as project management.

Your Role

You are a virtualization technology specialist passionate about cloud automation. You have competencies in infrastructure and network virtualization a good understanding of businesscritical and cloudnative applications and data center operations.

• You will be responsible for leading workshops and consulting engagements with customers
• You will conduct prepackaged Nutanix consulting solutions in a timely and effective manner
• You will take ownership of business outcomes of virtualization & automation projects through requirements capture and technical governance
• You will craft detailed design documents and perform handson implementation work
• You will work with our project managers on the project budget and all aspects of efficient delivery
• You will provide technical input and review our projects in a presales stage
• You will advise and consult internal groups by providing accurate effort estimations
• You can display commercial awareness by identifying future services opportunity within a project or customer
• You actively drive practice activities such as the development of standard methodologies intellectual property capture and creation quality assurance and peer reviews
• You maintain current knowledge of the entire Nutanix product stack.

What You Will Bring

• Experience to architect complex data center solutions with multisite cloud architectures from the ground up
• Sound understanding of SoftwareDefined Data Center (SDDC) concepts and implementations.
• Excellent communication and writing skills and can develop advanced architectural solutions design documentation
• Possesses influencing and negotiating skills and is seen as a technical authority by customers and peers
• Validated working and handson experience with Nutanix AHV or other Industryleading virtualization products (e.g. vSphere ESXi vCenter NSX vSAN SRM) within largescale IT production data centers.
• At least 8 years of experience in designing and implementing data center infrastructure virtualization projects in regards to compute network and storage.
• Work with engineering on product improvements.
• Lead client escalations.
• A Nutanix NCP/NCS or VMware VCAP would be highly regarded.
• Industry Certifications for Datacenter and Networking (e.g. LPIC MSCA CCNA and equivalent)
• Good background in Windows and Linux systems administration
• Native Arabic Speaker