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Principal Consultant (Data Protection SME)
Irvine, United States
About the role
As a Computacenter Principal Consultant, you will help provide transformative technology solutions for the world's most visionary companies. This takes imagination, relentless client service, and tenacity to enable our clients to achieve their goals and delight our customers. Our top-tier partnerships with leading-edge technology manufacturers keep us immersed across the broad spectrum of the IT ecosystem.
Along with implementing and assisting with designing single and multi-vendor technology solutions, you will have the opportunity to work within an industry-leading sales and technical sales team to understand our clients’ needs and craft sustainable roadmaps to achieve their goals.
From strategy to fulfillment and managed services, our engineering-focused solutions help clients leverage technology to achieve more than they ever thought possible. This role emphasizes Data protection solutions from Commvault and Data Domain and Dell PowerEdge CommCell/media servers, but also bridges into the Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, and Dell Data Protection solutions.
Annual Salary Range: $175K - $200K USD
What you'll be doing
- Works closely with Consulting Engineers and Principal Consultants to deliver services that support company objectives and align with Winning Together values.
- Develop as a technical leader in technology solutions by doing the following:
- Receive mentoring from Principal Consultants for advancement.
- Mentoring other Consulting Engineers.
- Lead a team of resources on larger projects.
- Review the deliverables of other Engineers, as appropriate.
- Act as a point of escalation for Consulting Engineers.
- Be regarded as a thought leader by recommending new technologies, best practices, and tools that support the growth of the business
- Assess the customer's environment and provide design and solution recommendations.
- Act as liaison between Pre-Sales and Delivery teams.
- Provide design, deployment, and implementation services of single or multi-vendor solutions.
- Handle issues escalated by Consultants.
- Troubleshoot multi-vendor issues, create remediation plans, and plan execution
- Lead Project teams as assigned
- Be current with vendor offerings and technology
- Achieve and maintain Industry and Partner focused certifications as it relates to your focus area(s)
- Be available to meet the customer’s IT needs
- Achievement of individual utilization targets
- Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.
- End-to-end understanding of Data Protection products from Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, Dell, deployment models, and architecture.
- Participate in the design and implementation of the Data Protection from Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, and Dell solutions in a customer’s environment.
- Provide hands-on training to customers on data protection features from Commvault, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, and Dell, including management and maintenance capabilities.
- Assist in the development of automation scripts to implement, migrate, and maintain deployed solutions.
- Collaborate with customer operations teams to ensure a smooth transition from implementation to production.
What you have
- 10+ years of implementation experience in large enterprise environments
- Recent consulting experience is a significant plus
- Commvault Certified Professional (highly preferred)
- Rubrik RCIE (Rubrik Certified Implementation Engineer)
- Veeam VMCE (Veeam Certified Engineer)
- DELL EMC Data Protection Partner Certifications preferred
- Data Domain
- Power Protect Data Manager
- Backup Appliance experience
- HPE StoreOnce
- Exagrid
- Compute experience from
- Dell PowerEdge
- HPE DL series
- Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect and Standalone
- Legally eligible to work in the United States.
- Subject matter expert within your focused technology stack
- Ability to deploy complex multi-technology solutions
- Ability to participate in the design of complex technical solutions and provide input into bid, project and technical documents
- Ability to function within a large virtual technical team, with good negotiation skills and who is a self-starter.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work independently.
- Experience with Linux and shell scripting (bash/zsh/sh)
- Experience in AWS/AZURE/GCP cloud-based backup targets.
- Experience with troubleshooting in large, complex environments
- Experience and/or understanding of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and High-Availability concepts
- Experience and/or knowledge of current industry-accepted Backup and Recovery concepts and practices
- Demonstrated confidence in leading customer-facing discussions.
- Subject matter expertise in Data Protection architecture, deployment models, and integration.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in large, complex environments.
- Experience with automation tools and scripting for provisioning and lifecycle management.
- Understanding of Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Backup/Recovery best practices.
What you can expect
There’s so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.
About us
Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We’re a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country’s best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta. www.computacenter.com/us
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