Network Consultant

The Network Consultant is responsible for providing direction and implementation tasks supporting the Virtual Migrations and reports directly to the Network Lead.  The network consultant will be a key member of a wider network team consisting of both Cisco and VMware NSX consultants.  The network consultant will be expected to both help design and implement network transformation between legacy Cisco NX-OS, NSX-V to Cisco ACI, NSX-T platforms.   Discovery and migration support across Networks, Load Balancers and Firewalls will also form part of the role. Existing VxBlock and VxRail technologies would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of complex Network Integration, migration project work
• Responsible and Accountable for the production high- and low-level designs to help deliver the solutions required by the project and customer
• Understand and comply with both project and customer governance and standards
• Lead an experience team by example and leverage previous experience to identify migration Solutions, bug fixes and development opportunities
• Work with planning on pre-review of migration bundles
• Attend the migration governance meetings
• Participate in Capacity Management process specifically relating to the delivery and execution readiness
• Assist KANBAN and backlog creation and tracking
• Preparation for delivery and execution
• Raise risks and issues with options to address and record on the MS Teams RAID board
• Any tasks assigned Programme Leads.
• Performance Metrics gathering and analysis
• Participate in migration events
• Network sign-off on all bundles prior to Squad handover
• Raise Lessons Learned and Risk / Issues where required
• Acts as technical escalation point during Migration Event weekends.
• Technical SME
• Attends Post Implementation Review (PIR) after migrations have been executed as technical SME.
• Leverage previous experience to bring forth best practices and solutions to the project team and contribute to enhancing existing methodologies
• Any tasks assigned by TDA or Programme Leads.
• Raise technical challenges in the appropriate forum.
• Ensure critical issues are escalated.
• Adhering to the Architecture Board Governance
• Knowledge Share and Documentation, Templates, Testing Documentation

Essential Skills

o   Solarwinds

o   NETMri

o   VRealise Suite

o   VMware Host Virtualisation

o   VMware NSX-V and NSX-T

o   VxRail

o   VxBlock

Preferred Skills