Staff Consulting Architect, France

Professional Services Paris, France Req.Num.: N1176


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The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Consulting Architect to join our Professional Services team in France. 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 pre-sales and post-sales stages by assisting in their software-defined 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 software-defined 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 business-critical and cloud-native applications, and data center operations.
  • You will be responsible for leading workshops and consulting engagements with customers
  • You will conduct pre-packaged 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 hands-on 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 pre-sales 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 multi-site cloud architectures from the ground up
  • Sound understanding of Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) concepts and implementations.
  • At least 6 years of experience in designing and implementing data center infrastructure virtualization projects in regards to compute, network, and storage.
  • 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 hands-on experience with Nutanix  AHV or other Industry-leading virtualization products (e.g. vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, SRM) within large-scale IT production data centers.
  • Work with engineering on product improvements.
  • Lead client escalations.
  • A Nutanix NCP/NCS or VMware VCAP would be highly regarded.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, PowerShell, or Bash is essential for writing automation scripts and orchestrating tasks.
  • Knowledge of Automation Tools and Frameworks: Examples include Rest API, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform.
  • Good background in Windows and Linux systems administration
  • Bi-lingual: English and French

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