Position: Senior Data Center Pre/Post-Sales Engineer Location: Prefer South Florida / near Boca Raton, FL (not a deal breaker). Open to strong remote candidates; occasional onsite as needed. Travel: Approximately 10%
Role Overview:
Senior, customer-facing engineer responsible for owning the technical lifecycle of data center engagements from pre-sales discovery and solution design through post-sales implementation, migration, troubleshooting, and documentation. This role partners closely with sales and delivery teams and is expected to operate independently on complex projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery, requirements gathering, and solution architecture for customer opportunities.
- Create and present designs, BOMs, and implementation plans; lead PoCs when required.
- Deliver implementations: Nutanix deployments/expansions, virtualization migrations, storage/backup integrations, and cutovers.
- Serve as escalation resource for complex troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Produce professional documentation (HLD/LLD, as-builts, runbooks, validation checklists).
- Manage technical risk, scope alignment, and stakeholder expectations throughout engagements.
Required Technical Skills (Must Have)
- Nutanix: AOS/Prism, cluster deployment/expansion, troubleshooting, sizing/design support.
- Virtualization: Strong experience with VMware vSphere and/or Nutanix AHV (host config, VM lifecycle, migrations, performance fundamentals).
- Microsoft Active Directory: AD DS + DNS fundamentals, authentication basics, GPO awareness, service accounts, domain-join dependencies.
- Storage: SAN/NAS concepts, iSCSI (FC a plus), snapshots/replication, performance + capacity planning.
- Layer 2 Networking: VLANs, trunking/tagging, STP fundamentals, LACP/port-channels, MTU awareness.
- Backup & Recovery (MUST): Design/deploy/support backups for virtualized environments.
- Concepts: RPO/RTO, retention, restore testing, DR runbooks
- Tools: Veeam / Rubrik / Cohesity / Commvault / Dell PowerProtect (or equivalent)
Nice-to-Have (Plus)
- AWS and/or Azure experience (hybrid connectivity and core infrastructure services)
- Relevant certifications: Nutanix (NCA/NCP/NCM), VMware (VCP), Microsoft, backup vendor certs
Ideal Background
- Experience in MSP/VAR/consulting environments
- Strong communication skills: can explain tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences
- Proven ability to run engagements end-to-end with minimal supervision