VMWare Consultant (Contract)
Location
Edinburgh | United Kingdom
Job description
Our Leading Global Enterprise client is hiring a strong VMware Consultant to join their team on a VMware related project.
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 140 Days
Rate: up to £438 per day (please note, Employer NI is paid for by the client)
IR35 Status: Inside
Location: Hybrid/London or Edinburgh
Job Details – Day to day tasks:
- Actively review discovery data and look for opportunities that will enable the growth of the existing engagement.
- Implementation of appropriate governance and control as directed by the PMO.
- Manage risks and issues and oversee implementation of corrective actions.
- Manage interdependencies between the workstreams.
- Host regular (twice weekly) meetings with the lead roles within the function to ensure consistent delivery across the squads by reviewing activities on the critical path for each event and tracking progress against the T minus schedule.
- Conduct fortnightly 1-2-1s with the leads to understand issues and challenges, and review resourcing, annual leave and training requirements.
- Encourage feedback and ensure regular two-way dialogue to facilitate continuous improvement.
- Standardise processes and ensure they are applied consistently.
- Leverage previous experience, promote best practices and make improvements to existing methodologies.
- Act as the escalation point and seek advice from other programme leads as appropriate.
- Participate in process improvement initiatives and work with other programme leads as directed by the SSP Programme Manager.
- Ensure DTM is updated correctly after each migration event to ensure accurate reporting and billing.
- Ensure annual leave is logged in the central holiday tracker and managed effectively ensuring there is adequate coverage
- Act as an ambassador to actively promote the programme to both internal and external stakeholders and sell the benefits.
- Communicate successes on the Workplace.
- Review the effectiveness of the function with the Programme Manager periodically to ensure that roles are correctly aligned.
- Oversee the TPA process, and ensure efficient resolution to technical queries.
- Build on the existing knowledge base in MS Teams to support the resolution of technical issue
- Act as a point of technical escalation for migration events
Skills and Knowledge:
- Experience in a similar role.
- Experience using scheduling tools, such as Dell Transition Manager (DTM), and collaboration tools e.g. MS Teams and Zoom.
- Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Cloud Data Migrations, Data Migration (VMware) Services, Data Migration (VMware) Services [Global Solutioning], Data Migrations, Virtualization
- Virtualization – VMware vSphere Services, VMware – vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware HCX, VMware NSX, VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer, VMware NSX-T, VMware vSphere
- Cisco ACI (Nice to have.)
- Experience working in the finance or banking industry (Nice to have.)
- Experience working on a complex storage migration programme (Nice to have.)
Soft Skills:
- Good written and spoken communicative abilities; presentation and moderation skills; professional and convincing manner of appearance and expression; clear, targeted communication (verbal and written)
- Good decision-making skills. Influence and persuasion skills
- High degree of independence, organisational skills and time management
- Ability to perform very well even under high pressure in a structured manner and to strict deadline; ability to address multiple activities at any time
- Solution-oriented thinking and acting
- Ability to influence with integrity & negotiate sympathetically
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