Architect - Data Center Job in Yash Technologies

YASH Technologies, a leading enterprise business, and technology solution partner is seeking Network Data Center professional, who thrives on challenges and desires to make a real difference in the business world. With an environment of extraordinary innovation and unprecedented growth, this is an exciting opportunity for a self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced, quality-oriented, and team environment.

What you should have?

Primary Skills:

• Broad technical knowledge of the Hyper-converged data center infrastructure pillars: Storage, Network and Server, and Cloud and Virtualization strategies surrounding their planning, design, implementation, operation, and optimization
• Design, Architect and Implementation experience in any below Hyper Converged Infrastructure

• Hyper converged infrastructure - VMWare
• Hyper-converged infrastructure - SimpliVity
• Hyper-converged Infrastructure? - Nutanix
• Hyper-converged Infrastructure - Cisco
• Hyper-converged Infrastructure - Dell VXRAIL
• Hyper-converged Infrastructure NetApp

• Engagement lead is based on being up to date with the latest hardware developments (e.g.- VXLAN, UCS evolution, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Dynamic Fabric Automation) and Virtualization / Cloud (VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, open-source, different orchestration stacks, etc.) and the interdependency between technology and business environment.
• Expertise in one of the leading hypervisors is a plus.
• Solid experience with Linux and Microsoft operating systems; experience with other Unix operating systems and OpenStack are a plus.

Also, a plus is skills related to Cloud App architectures and best practices, including:

• Cloud-Native Ops tools: Mantl, contiv, meso, Kubernetes, etc., including skills installing creating & deploying a microservice
• Containers: Microservices, Docker, Packer, Orchestration, Monitoring, MANTL
• PaaS: PaaS technologies and tools
• End-to-end DC Virtualization and Cloud Architecture integration experience
• The Architect is expected to be up to date and continuously working to attain an expert skill set in utilizing UCS/ACI in Tier 1 applications environments like SAP, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, and Oracle
• Working knowledge of white box COTS & vendor HW products on the server (HP, Dell). storage(EMC, NetApp) & DC network (HP, Juniper).
• Architectural know-how on special HW/SW based tech such as SR IOV, PCI pass-through, DPDK and accelerators
• End to end architectural know-how on following OpenStack components

• RHEL host OS & Linux components (ovs)
• Nova (Compute),
• Cinder (storage)
  • CEPH storage
  • FCoE and FC
  • iSCSI
• Neutron (network) & SDN
  • VLAN and overlay (VXLAN, MPLSGRE, etc)
  • DC network virtualization based on SDN controllers and virtual switches
  • Opendaylight SDN controllers and vendor-specific controllers from Brocade, Juniper etc
  • Host-based acceleration techniques such as 6Wind
• Cloud Management Platform ( RedHat CloudForms, VIM controller)

End to end architectural know-how on following VMWare components

• Compute
• Storage
• Network
• SDN
  • VMWare Nicira NSX controller
  • Edge NSX data plane services
  • Service chaining
• Cloud management (vCloud and vRealise) & VIM (vCenter,vSphere)

• Internetworking between Openstack and VMWare via GW and routers
• Internetworking between virtualized infrastructure and bare-metal via VXLAN GW
• The Architect shall be conversant in Big Data concepts and emerging analytics trends.
• Has a good understanding of data center management and orchestration, and enterprise application environments as well as key horizontal applications.
• Grasps the constant transition toward open-source environments, risks, and opportunities of open-source software.
• Understands the interdependency of domains, networking, compute, storage, security and the various current solution technologies.
• Solid experience with Linux and Microsoft operating systems; experience with other Unix operating systems and OpenStack are a plus.
• Scripting ability and conversant in Python and/or Powershell.
• Ability to deploy/leverage Puppet and/or Chef configuration management tools.
• Should have a solid understanding of DevOps development methodologies.
• Architectural knowledge of orchestration/virtualization tools and concepts.

Education, Skill, and Experience Requirements:

• A Bachelors / Masters Degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology or related field preferred and 10+ years of Data Center experience
• 5+ years experience in Technical Pre-Sales for Datacenter design
• Polished oral and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Established track record of success in Pre-Sales
• In the pre-sales stage, lead a solution team to analyze customer's RFP, being the solution architect as well as estimating the total cost and risk
• Applying a comprehensive knowledge of site, system and application DR and system high availability planning.

At least 10 years in one or several of the following competency areas:

• IT/Cloud Architecture Integration Experience.
• DC Management & Orchestration, Architectural knowledge of orchestration/virtualization tools and concepts: OpenStack, VMware Vcenter.
• Cloud integration: Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud.

IT Infrastructure Integration: Network & Security, Storage & Backup, OS, Database:

• Familiar with Operator's Applications: OSS, BSS, CRM, ERP, OA, etc
• Familiar with Operator's Architectures: ITIL, eTom

DC Consolidation and Migration Methodology and Experience:

• DC Consolidation plan and wave design experience
• Application migration.
• System Migration: P2V, V2V, Unix to X86.
• Data/Database Migration: Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server migration to each other.
• Storage Migration: EMC, NetApp, HP, HDS migration to each other.

What you will do?

• Performance Tuning of OS, Applications, DB and Networking
• Working on HA and DR architectures and processes
• Datacenter Migration - approaches, typical in given timelines.
• You have to work and understand common public cloud offers (AWS, Azure, Google, etc.)
• Performing Business Impact Analyses for critical systems, applications, and process
• Need to develop continuity and recovery strategies.
• Analyze, evaluate and recommend technical solutions for stakeholders.
• Work with Dimensional technology and business owners to assist in the validation of the disaster recovery strategies for critical applications and systems.
• Work with technology subject matter experts to validate technical recovery scripts and work instructions required to recover critical applications and systems
• Responsible for the pre-sales stage, lead a solution team to analyze customer's RFP, being the solution architect as well as estimating the total cost and risk
• Applying a comprehensive knowledge of site, system and application DR and system high availability planning.