Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
Every new job is an opportunity for growing your career. VMware is growing and growing fast. You can be a part of our growth story as VMware is the only company perfectly positioned to provide the multi-cloud platform for all the applications our customers need to accelerate their business today and in the future. Joining VMware gives you long-term opportunities to expand your skills with annual education and/or training reimbursements, job rotation programs, subscriptions to online training platforms, and employee networking groups. The Worldwide Consulting Centers (WWCC), which are part of the global VMware Professional Services Organization, are committed to the success of the customer and their digital strategy. The WWCC streamlines the journey for customers to become digital businesses that deliver better experiences to their customers and employees. The Delivery Consulting practice allows customers and regional field services teams to take advantage of the Worldwide Consulting Centers’ focus on the technical skills for Deployment and Design methodologies, overall structure, and strategies for seamlessly delivering services from global locations (offshore and nearshore). The Senior Consultant is an advanced/experienced level technology specialist and subject matter expert on Virtual Cloud Networking portfolio, providing customer guidance by facilitating technical workshops, creation of designs, and implementation of use cases into high-quality solutions. In addition to customer-facing responsibilities, Senior Consultants also provide technical input to service offering evaluation, customer success initiative, pre-sales, and drive best practices in the form of document/White Paper creation.
Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• You will be expected to effectively work as part of a wider project team or independently act as technical lead on migration engagements.
• You should be able to identify process gaps and work with the team to address them
• Maintain current, high-level technical knowledge of the entire VMware product portfolio and future product direction and expert-level knowledge of the virtual cloud networking franchise for NSX-t and NSX-ALB product lines.
• Take ownership and accountability for individual deliverables.
• Proactively define project requirements/issues/constraints/risks and address them with PMs
• You should be able to effectively collaborate within different product workstreams within the team and with Business units, identify current gaps, and find a way to bridge them

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Collaborate with cross-functional VMware project teams which could consist of VMware pre-sales architects, engineers, product management, consulting, and support staff.
• Work as part of a wider project team or independently act as technical lead on migration engagements
• Confidently gather use case requirements and creation of low-level designs while functioning as an advisory resource for “Best Practices” and driving adoption of VMware solutions.
• Develop use cases into high-quality solutions in your specialist area
• Actively demonstrate commercial awareness and stay within the scope of the contracted work.
• Take ownership and accountability for individual deliverables.
• Define project requirements/issues/constraints with PMs.
• Make accurate impact assessments, and raise, implement, close and roll-back plans when required
• Design, Deployment, and Migration knowledge on NSX, NSX-ALB (Advance load balancer), vRNI, and SDWAN.
• Assist in the development of our service offerings as well as developing migration content, best practices, and white papers.
• Must enjoy working with leading-edge technology across Geographies.
• Understand and articulate the impact of network virtualization and security on a customer’s physical IP network, operations, and future network and networking security architectures.
• Plan and lead virtualized network infrastructure migration engagements, implementations, roll-outs, and migrations, including hands-on implementation of NSX.
• Maintain deep technical and business knowledge of cloud computing and networking applications, industry directions, and trends.
• End-to-end deployments on at least one NSX ALB (Avi) integrated ecosystems like OpenStack, ESXi, OpenShift, AWS, Mesos DC/OS, Docker, Azure, GCP
• Previous experience with ADC deployments for F5 LTM, Citrix NetScaler, A10 Thunder, Brocade/PulseSecure vTM, Cisco ACE products
• Expertise on GSLB offerings from F5, Cisco, Citrix is a big plus.

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

• We are a team of adaptive, self-starting and mission-driven individuals with a passion for doing our best work and bringing our best selves. We are committed to building and establishing a team culture that is rooted in collaboration, growth and a sincere commitment to the well-being of our team and its members. We make sure to invest time to check in on one another, have fun and support each other through the high-paced growth of meeting our vision.
• This position reports to a Manager in World Wide Consulting Center team. You will have frequent interactions with your Manager but will have large autonomy on a daily basis. You will share information with the rest of the team and can expect the team to help you when you have questions.

Where is this role located?
This role is based out of VMware’s Cairo (Egypt) office and is open to candidates in the surrounding Egypt as Flexible working environment

What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
• Generous Time Off Programs
• Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
• Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes
• A decent budget for technical and soft skills trainings after the 1st year of employment

Category : Services and Consulting
Subcategory: Solutions Architect
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-08-15
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