Data Center Infrastructure Consultant

Connect44 is looking for Data Center Infrastructure consultant

Consulting professional services, supporting Service Sales and Marketing projects, Knowledge Sharing and Best Practice transfer through leadership, coaching, mentoring or formal training activities.

Develop and articulate the DC Solution portfolio and value propositions reflecting market and customer requirements within the fixed, mobile and converged ICT markets.

Identify add on sales opportunities during assignments and/or with existing customers and communicate to appropriate business development areas within Huawei.

Deliverables

Build, manage and own the customer relationship, capture customer requirements and analyze customer pain points to identify and agree solution deliverables for engagement.

Ensure customer interests are represented and addressed during DC Consulting engagements.

Support major marketing events and activities as a subject matter expert.

Remain current with market trends and developments to identify opportunities and produce quarterly market and Business Intelligence reports.

Benchmark DC service Solutions to improve market place performance and inform regional strategy in order to meet or exceed competitor offers.

Working closely with HQ and Regional sales teams, promote DC Consulting within all Service offers providing marketing support and coaching as required.

Provide marketing and sales support to existing and prospective customers globally.

Produce regular summary reports to Regional and HQ staff of best practice, reference cases, gap analysis, opportunities and key learning from engagements.

Individual requirements

Extensive expertise in Data Center operations gained in delivery and senior managerial roles in one or more of the following competence areas

o DC Virtualization and Cloud Architecture Integration Experience

DC Management & Orchestration

Enterprise Applications and Architectures

IT Infrastructure Solutions

Cloud and Virtualization strategies for storage, network, and server

Architectural knowledge of orchestration/virtualization tools and concepts

Experience in SDN and NFV platform architectures and design

Managed Services and Outsourcing

Network Design and Optimization

o People and Processes

DevOps development methodologies

Project and Program management

Service and Revenue Assurance

ITIL and Business Process Framework

Organizational restructuring and maturity development

Knowledge Management

Process management, re-engineering and compliance

Standards and Quality systems compliance and audit

Business Continuity Planning

Due diligence audit and reporting

Network Security and Risk management

Governance management

o Technology Experience

Mobile and/or Fixed Telecoms

IT and IS operations

Cloud, SDN/NFV and other leading edge technologies

o Commercial experience in Sales, business development, marketing, sales support or contract management roles

o Business modelling, Strategy and Roadmap development and implementation

Consulting experience gained within a telecoms operator or vendor or an industry recognized consultancy practice.

Highly adaptable, goal orientated self reliant and personable, able to work under pressure in global multi-cultural, often unstructured work environments.

Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English with a natural ability to communicate complex concepts concisely with clarity and credibility. Chinese language proficiency is desirable but not essential.

Personal integrity and professionalism.

Able to travel extensively at short notice for extended periods, globally as required.

Please send your CVs to (see below).