Senior Technical Consultant, Modern Data Center - Azure Local & Hyper-V

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
 
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 
 
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 
 
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

The Senior Technical Consultant, Azure Local & Hyper-V, leads the design, implementation, migration, and support of modern compute and virtualization solutions for AHEAD clients.
This role serves as a senior technical lead across client engagements, translating business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable infrastructure. The consultant leads discovery and design workshops, develops technical deliverables, performs hands-on implementation and troubleshooting, and guides client and internal teams through successful project delivery.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience with Microsoft Azure Local, Hyper-V, Windows Server, hyperconverged infrastructure, and enterprise data center environments, along with strong consulting, communication, and leadership skills.

What You Will Do:
Lead client discovery, assessment, planning, architecture, and design workshops. Design, deploy, upgrade, migrate, and optimize Azure Local and Hyper-V environments. Develop Azure Local solutions using Azure Arc, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, Failover Clustering, Windows Admin Center, and related platform services. Design and implement Hyper-V failover clusters, including Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, high availability, virtual networking, and workload placement. Plan and execute Azure Local cluster deployments, including hardware readiness, operating system configuration, Azure registration, Arc enablement, cluster validation, and operational handoff. Assess site readiness across compute, storage, networking, power, cabling, access, Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy requirements. Lead virtual machine migration and modernization projects, including migrations from VMware and legacy virtualization platforms to Hyper-V or Azure Local. Use tools such as Azure Migrate, PowerShell, Windows Admin Center, and native Microsoft platform utilities to support migrations and lifecycle operations. Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across Azure Local, Hyper-V, Windows Server, networking, storage, firmware, and hardware. Create high-level and low-level designs, implementation plans, build guides, test plans, migration procedures, runbooks, risk registers, and as-built documentation. Collaborate with networking, storage, security, cloud, data protection, automation, project management, and vendor teams. Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, issues, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Support technical scoping, estimates, statements of work, proposals, and change requests. Provide knowledge transfer and operational guidance to client and AHEAD team members. Assist other team members with career development, mentoring, and skills growth across Azure Local, Hyper-V, and related technologies. Contribute to repeatable delivery methods, automation, reference architectures, and technical best practices. Follow AHEAD delivery methods, quality standards, security practices, and project governance requirements.

Required Qualifications:
Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments. Demonstrated hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server. Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting Hyper-V failover clusters, Cluster Shared Volumes, live migration, virtual networking, and high-availability workloads. Hands-on experience with Azure Local or Azure Stack HCI, including Azure Arc registration, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, cluster validation, and lifecycle operations. Experience with Windows Server administration, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, Windows Failover Clustering, and PowerShell. Experience with server hardware, firmware, host configuration, capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational support. Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues methodically and drive them to resolution. Experience creating technical documentation and communicating implementation details to clients and delivery teams. Demonstrated ability to deliver high levels of customer satisfaction through clear communication, relationship building, expectation management, and professional follow-through. Ability to independently lead technical workstreams while collaborating effectively with project managers, architects, engineers, vendors, and client stakeholders. Willingness to travel to client sites as required by engagements.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading multi-site Azure Local deployments or data center modernization initiatives. Experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, VMware Cloud Foundation, or related technologies is a plus. Experience migrating workloads from VMware, Hyper-V, or legacy platforms to Azure Local. Experience with Azure Migrate, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, or other Azure hybrid management services. Experience with Azure Arc-enabled services, AKS enabled by Azure Arc, or Kubernetes platforms. Experience with Dell, HPE, Lenovo, or other enterprise server and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms. Experience with automation or infrastructure-as-code using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools. Experience with disaster recovery, backup, replication, workload mobility, or hybrid cloud environments. Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, or related industry certifications. Consulting, professional services, systems integration, or customer-facing delivery experience.

Success in this Role:
Success is demonstrated by: Delivering technically sound Azure Local and Hyper-V solutions that meet client requirements and AHEAD quality standards. Completing implementation and migration activities on schedule with proactive communication of risks, dependencies, and changes. Producing accurate, usable documentation and effective knowledge transfer. Building trusted relationships with clients, project teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders. Driving issues to resolution and maintaining ownership through project completion. Contributing to repeatable methods, automation, reference designs, and technical best practices. Mentoring teammates and expanding AHEAD’s Azure Local and Hyper-V delivery capabilities. Demonstrating AHEAD values through collaboration, innovation, ownership, customer service, and continuous growth.

Core Competencies:
Azure Local and Hyper-V technical expertise Infrastructure architecture and design Technical problem solving and troubleshooting Consultative communication Project execution and time management Documentation and knowledge transfer Cross-functional collaboration Customer focus and professionalism Technical leadership and mentoring

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.  
 
Why AHEAD:
 
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
 
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
 
USA Employment Benefits include: 
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance 
- 401(k) 
- Paid company holidays 
- Paid time off 
- Paid parental and caregiver leave 
- Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. 
 
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