Senior Technical Consultant, Modern Data Center - Azure Local & Hyper-V

About AHEAD AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. What You Will Do - Lead client discovery, assessment, planning, architecture, and design workshops. - Design, deploy, upgrade, migrate, and optimize Azure Local and Hyper-V environments. - Develop Azure Local solutions using Azure Arc, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, Failover Clustering, Windows Admin Center, and related platform services. - Design and implement Hyper-V failover clusters, including Cluster d Volumes, live migration, high availability, virtual networking, and workload placement. - Plan and execute Azure Local cluster deployments, including hardware readiness, operating system configuration, Azure registration, Arc enablement, cluster validation, and operational handoff. - Assess site readiness across compute, storage, networking, power, cabling, access, Active Directory, DNS, and Group Policy requirements. - Lead virtual machine migration and modernization projects, including migrations from VMware and legacy virtualization platforms to Hyper-V or Azure Local. - Use tools such as Azure Migrate, PowerShell, Windows Admin Center, and native Microsoft platform utilities to support migrations and lifecycle operations. - Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across Azure Local, Hyper-V, Windows Server, networking, storage, firmware, and hardware. - Create high-level and low-level designs, implementation plans, build guides, test plans, migration procedures, runbooks, risk registers, and as-built documentation. - Collaborate with networking, storage, security, cloud, data protection, automation, project management, and vendor teams. - Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, issues, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Support technical scoping, estimates, statements of work, proposals, and change requests. - Provide knowledge transfer and operational guidance to client and AHEAD team members. - Assist other team members with career development, mentoring, and skills growth across Azure Local, Hyper-V, and related technologies. - Contribute to repeatable delivery methods, automation, reference architectures, and technical best practices. - Follow AHEAD delivery methods, quality standards, security practices, and project governance requirements. Required Qualifications - Five or more years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise compute and virtualization environments. - Demonstrated hands-on experience with Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server. - Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting Hyper-V failover clusters, Cluster d Volumes, live migration, virtual networking, and high-availability workloads. - Hands-on experience with Azure Local or Azure Stack HCI, including Azure Arc registration, Storage Spaces Direct, Network ATC, cluster validation, and lifecycle operations. - Experience with Windows Server administration, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, Windows Failover Clustering, and PowerShell. - Experience with server hardware, firmware, host configuration, capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational support. - Ability to trou