The main responsibility of the technical consultant is to work on presales phase for services qualification and RFP writing and deploy HPE solutions to end customers.
This includes installing the HW products, initialize and configure the HW, upgrade firmware and HW accordingly, install operating System or Hypervisor, installing & configuring the Storage and San, and monitoring.
Responsibilities :
- Work closely in different steps of a project from presales to post sales delivery.
- Write down RFP, SOW, engineering and installation documents.
- Qualify services and discuss details with different stakeholders from customer side.
- Provide proactive IT recommendations
- Participate in delivering IT services to customers
- Deploy, install, configure, tune, integrate, and if needed manager IT equipements.
- Keep customers informed, set and follow commitments, keep precise documentation and reporting on all activities internally and externally.
- Ability to work outside work hours in a duty on-call rotation.
- Manage customer expectations by taking into consideration the service entitlement and identify customer’s problems.
- Participate in reactive delivery for incidents.
- Elevate and / or escalate cases to next levels when needed
- Manage multiple tasks simultaneously with minimum supervision
- Active and self-paced improvement of technical and business acumen
- Wiliness to travel across different cities as needed
Education and Experience Required :
Higher technical educationRelevant industry certifications (VCP, Nutanix, Backup ISVs…)Knowledge and Skills :
Knowledge in Servers, Storage Arrays, San and Lan switches, Tape libraries, VTLs,Virtualization solutions, backup ISVs, Containerization solutions, Replication, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity.Have very deep knowledge and experience in vSpehre, vCenter, vSan, NSX, VCF, Tangu and other vmware products and integration with Storage Arrays and Backup solutions.Knowledge in Linux distributions (RHEL, SLES), LVM, Service-Guard.Knowledge and experience in San Brocade switches (installation, configuration and migration)Knowledge and experience in Nutanix software suits (AHV, AOS, Calm, Flow, Carbon, Prism…).Knowledge and experience with Veeam, Commvault, Netbackup…Knowledge and experience in Docker, Kubernetees, Openshift…Have worked and managed big migration projects (HW and data).Have experience with replication and disaster recovery configuration and implementation.Experience in troubleshooting in a technical environmentStrong verbal and written communications skillsGood command of English, French & ArabicTeam playerJob Requirements
You have an engineering degree or master's in information systems, telecoms or IT.You have a good knowledge of the different building blocks of an information system.You have at least 5 years’ experience in the deployment, installation, integration and administration of IT solutions.You have excellent written and spoken communication skills in French and English.You are recognized for your leadership, your proactivity, your ability to manage risks and your sense of service.Customer-oriented, you have the ability to manage different types of stress with a sense of urgency and priority.