Senior Technical Consultant
Date:
Sep 1, 2026
Location:
Dubai, AE
Company:
MDS SI - Storage Solutions (Division)
Req ID:
3844
Job Title
Senior Technical Consultant
Job Scope
The Senior Technical Consultant is accountable for providing advice and consultancy on the company solutions to diverse clients in various industry sectors. S/He designs, configures, tests and implements projects while training and overseeing the team.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
VCF 9.1 Architecture, Design & Delivery
- Architecture & Design: Architect and deploy enterprise-grade VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9.1) and NSX-T environments, leveraging unified deployment models, expanded host fleet scale, and parallel lifecycle/upgrade operations.
- Complex Migrations: Lead migrations from vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) to NSX, replatforming customer networking environments—including switching, routing, firewalling, and load balancing—with minimal downtime.
- VCF 9.1 Feature Enablement: Implement and operationalize VCF 9.1 capabilities such as NVMe Memory Tiering (with native software mirroring and reboot-free enablement), Live Patching, zero-touch host provisioning, and Encrypted vMotion hardware offloading.
- Security & Micro-Segmentation: Use Aria Operations for Networks (vRNI) and NSX Intelligence to analyze application traffic flows, build granular Distributed Firewall (DFW) policies, and enforce zero-trust micro-segmentation and compliance drift detection. Leverage the NSX Security Services Platform to extend and orchestrate third-party security services within the virtualized environment.
- Core Datacenter Networking: Configure and optimize datacenter networks on Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches; manage dynamic routing (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), NAT, gateway firewalls, and load balancing (NSX ALB / F5 LTM).
- Technical Documentation: Author HLD, LLD, application stack blueprints, network traffic flow diagrams, POC reports, and project closure documentation.
Cloud Operations & Tenant Onboarding
- Oversee network and security operations for multi-tenant private cloud environments.
- Serve as senior escalation lead for critical Tier 3/4 infrastructure incidents (Sev-1/Sev-2).
- Manage tenant onboarding for VCD environments, IPSec VPN configuration, DMZ setup, and datacenter hardware upgrades across switching, routing, and security assets.
Position Requirements
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or any other related field
Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
- Core Stack: Deep hands-on experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9.x/9.1), NSX-T, NSX-V, and Azure VMware Solution (AVS)
- VCF 9.1 Expertise: Working knowledge of VCF 9.1 architecture enhancements, NVMe Memory Tiering, vSphere Elastic Provisioning (zero-touch bootstrapping), and expanded vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) cluster density.
- Networking & Hardware: Hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus, Cisco Catalyst, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and complex network troubleshooting.
- Security Systems: Direct experience configuring and integrating virtual firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/ASAv) into virtualized datacenter architectures.
- Analytics & Management Tools: Proficient with vRNI (Aria Operations for Networks), Cloudscape, NSX Intelligence, and F5 LTM
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