Senior Cloud Consultant

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

Job Family Definition:

Provide technology consulting to external customers and internal project teams. Responsible for providing technical support and/or leadership in the creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customers’ business needs and, consequently, for understanding customers’ businesses. As trusted advisor create and maintain effective customer relationships so as to insure customer satisfaction. Maintain knowledge of leading edge technologies and industry/market domain knowledge. Actively contribute to the company’s solutions portfolio by providing information ranging from technical knowledge to methodologies based on experience gained from customer projects. Shape technical direction and technical strategies within the organization and for external customers. Accountable for consistent and significant chargeability levels (or expense relief for internal project teams) and for assisting in meeting or exceeding revenue and customer satisfaction goals. Contribute to organization’s profitability by generating and cultivating new business opportunities and by providing technical support for deal proposal development.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services regularly and sustainable. Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Provides expertise and partnership to functional and technical project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Exercises significant independent judgment to determine best method for achieving objectives. May provide team leadership and mentoring to others.

Description of Role:

Candidates should apply advanced subject matter knowledge to advise suitable Campus Network Edge solution to customers to achieve their desired business objectives. The solution may involve Wired infrastructure e.g., switches, routers and/or wireless infrastructure e.g., Access Points, Wireless Controllers, Management tool, End point security tools etc. The candidate will have to design, implement & migrate the campus solution in respect to the areas mentioned above.

Candidate to work on complex problems, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors. Candidate to lead and/or provide technical expertise to functional project teams, may participate in Cross-Functional initiatives, act as an expert providing direction and guidance to process improvements and establishing policies. He/She will frequently represent the organization to external customers/clients. He/She should exercise significant independent judgment within broadly defined policies and practices to determine the best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives. He/She may provide mentoring and guidance to junior level employees. He/She must frequently contribute to the development of new ideas and methods.

What you’ll do:

Responsibilities:

• Bachelor in Degree especially in Computer Science (e.g. BE, B.Tech).

• Minimum 8 years of working experience in professional service (Design/Architecture/Deployment/Migration) in Campus Edge solutions (Wired and Wireless).

• [Mandatory] have 3-4 Years of design, implementation, configuration & migration experience in large scale Aruba campus edge Wired & Wireless Networking technologies which includes Aruba CX switches, Aruba CAP/IAP, Controllers, AOS 8.0/10.0, Airwave & Central, and Aruba Activate with an excellent in-depth knowledge of Generic wireless network design/implementation.

• [Mandatory] have 1-2 years of recent experience in Clearpass deployment, implementation, configuration including Policy Manager, Guest Solution, OnGuard, OnBoard, 802.1x, TACACS.

• [Mandatory] Excellent communication skills, Documentation skills.

• [Preferred] As a secondary skillset Cisco routing and switching & Cisco Wireless would add advantage.

• [Preferred] DevOps skills in Networking field e.g., API/Scripting experience in wired and wireless domain.

Certification:

• Preferred: ACMP/ACMX/ACDX or at a minimum any professional level Aruba Certification.
• Preferred: CCNP/CCDP (R&S/Wireless), Ekahau ECSE, Aruba ACCP/ACCX/ACSP/AWMP/ACA/ASA or any vendor professional level certification

Responsibilities

• Design/Assess/Implement/Deploy/Migration of Campus Wired and Wireless solution in multivendor environment including Aruba products.
• Leads multiple project teams of other engineers, responsible for all stages of design and deployment for complex enterprise network environment and platforms, including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration.
• Provides domain-specific expertise on enterprise networking for delivery and pursuit phase.
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies or methodologies into projects.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members.

Knowledge and Skills

• Expert level skills and extensive experience in design/implementation/configuration/deployment/Migration/troubleshooting of Wired (Aruba AOS/AOS-CX) & Wireless Network primarily in Aruba (or Cisco Wireless as secondary skillset) Wireless infrastructure comprising of Aruba Mobility controllers, IAPs, Gateway, Aruba Central, Airwave, ClearPass.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at senior management levels.

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience Required:

• 8+ years of professional experience and a Bachelor of Arts/Science or equivalent degree in computer science or related area of study; without a degree, three additional years of relevant professional experience (11+ years in total).

Knowledge and Skills:

• Candidate must have consulting/advisory level skills in designing/implementation/migration of Aruba Solutions in the last 3-4 years. If the candidate does not have the same experience in the recent 3-4 years, he/she will be rejected in the screening round.

• Any candidate with the support or managed services profile will be rejected at the screening round.

• The hiring team should screen the profile first before sending for screening and follow the criteria mentioned above.

• Candidates with a very short notice period (max. 1-2 months) should be prioritized

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Business Planning, Cloud Computing, Cloud Migrations, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Hybrid Clouds, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) {+ 10 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Services

Job Level:

TCP_04

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