Consultant Sr - Storage - Virtualization

Up to $93K plus bonus

Up to 60% travel.

Responsible for delivering high quality Storage and Virtualization engagements on-time, on-budget, and with high levels of customer satisfaction. Senior Consultants are expected to maintain consistently high billable utilizations, while demonstrating their ability to participate as a project team member while managing a robust workload. She/he is also responsible for fostering and expanding customer relationships in order to drive add-on business opportunities with their regional leadership team. Senior Consultants are also asked to mentor junior consultants and provide quality assurance.

Responsibilities:
-Delivering consulting services on time, on budget, with a focus on attaining high customer satisfaction
-Ensure high customer satisfaction scores for all projects by completing on-time quality deliverables to the project team and customer with no rework
-Provide accurate and timely project status updates to the assigned Engagement Manager, and ensure accurate recording of project hours into the time tracking system
-Comply with established service methodologies for engagement delivery
-Participates in the development of the project schedules with the Engagement Manager and project team in order to identify key customer expectations and milestones for the project
-Owning a robust workload while executing strong time management disciplines to meet deadlines and customer deliverables
-Manage workload efficiency with Principal and Engagement Managers to meet monthly revenue generation and billable utilization expectations for the Senior Consultant role
-Meets all project deadlines and communicate regularly with management regarding customer timelines, workload conflicts, and issue escalation when appropriate
-Building strong relationships through quality work and thought leadership within customer organizations to assist with driving add-on business and long-term partnerships
-Participate as a project team member with the development of strong deliverable content in order to drive solid recommendations for customers Participate in the analysis, design and implementation phases of a project to provide value and expertise to the project team when developing final deliverables
-Collaborate closely with the Engagement Managers and project team members in identifying and closing additional revenue opportunities and creating reference accounts
-Contribute high quality collateral to the consulting team’s knowledge base
-Participate in sales support activities when appropriate by providing thought leadership

Educational Requirements:
-Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; graduate degree preferred but will consider applicants with equivalent work-related experience with a minimum educational requirement of a H.S. Diploma or GED equivalent.
-Certification in storage and virtualization technologies (e.g., Storage Networking Certification)
-College Degree preferred but will consider applicants with equivalent work-related experience with a minimum educational requirement of a H.S. Diploma or GED equivalent.

Business Experience:
-5 years experience in storage and virtualization solutions area
-Minimum 5 years direct consulting experience
-Familiarity with standards and regulations affecting data a plus (e.g., ITIL, CobiT, etc.)

Technology Skills:
-Extensive knowledge of VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies
-At least 5 years experience in infrastructure architecture and design of complex distributed systems environments, including failover techniques, recovery/rollback, and application partitioning
-Understanding of computer server architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet) and multi-processor designs (SMP)
-Architecture and working knowledge of NAS and SAN storage solutions (such as NetApp, EMC, DataDomain, HDS, etc.)
-Experience developing technology recovery solutions leveraging advanced storage solutions
-Networking and TCP/IP knowledge. Cisco switch familiarity a plus

Other Skills:
-Superb interpersonal skills, including strong communication skills (listening, interpreting and articulating) and demonstrated leadership and team development skills
-Ability to work in a matrix organization
-Exceptional analytical skills
-Solid project management, planning, organizational skills
-Experience in supporting Sales and developing proposals
-Proven pursuit of continuous self-development and staff-development

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the background investigation and pre-employment drug screen.

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Contact information:
Mike Stapinski, Next Step Systems
mike@nextstepsystems.com
www.nextstepsystems.com

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