Job Title: Senior Consultant | Data Center Virtualization | Bengaluru | Engineering
Your potential, unleashed.
India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realize your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organizations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.
At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.
The team
The Deloitte South Asia strategic growth team serves as a central pillar driving growth and transformation within DSA, spanning several business lines and various technology functions. We are established as a centralized team collaborating across consulting, implementation, and operation to maintain and enhance client value offerings and services. We innovate conventional approaches, leveraging Deloitte technology, differentiated domain expertise, intellectual property, talent, and capacity to embed continuous advantage and deliver enhanced business value.
In this team, our focus is on catering to the unique needs and preferences of clients in the South Asia region. Your role within this dynamic team is essential for establishing networks and relationships across the client stakeholder ecosystem and ensuring service fulfillment. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with other Deloitte leadership and stakeholders dedicated to the client. Your contributions will involve nurturing new and existing relationships, supporting presales life cycles, and playing a pivotal role in driving the success of DSA business growth for the specific client.
You will be part of a global organization that is making a measurable impact that matters every day.
Your work profile
We’re seeking a Virtualization SME to operate, optimize, and secure our Software‑Defined Data Center (SDDC) platforms. You’ll manage VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, collaborate on NSX‑T and vSAN/SAN/NAS, drive lifecycle management, backup/DR readiness, and automation—ensuring availability, performance, and compliance for mission‑critical workloads.
Key Responsibilities
SDDC Platform Operations
- Operate and maintain vSphere clusters (HA/DRS), ESXi hosts, and vCenter: patching, upgrades, health checks, HCL alignment.
- Perform VM lifecycle tasks: templates, cloning, snapshots (best practices), vMotion/Storage vMotion, resource rightsizing.
- Support VCF/SDDC Manager domain operations (if applicable).
Networking (NSX‑T)
- Work with network teams on NSX‑T constructs: segments, DFW security groups/policies, NAT, DHCP, LB basics; integrate with physical networks (VLANs, MTU).
- Troubleshoot connectivity, micro‑segmentation, and east‑west/north‑south traffic issues.
Storage
- Operate vSAN (policies/SPBM, health, capacity, resync behavior) and integrate with SAN/NAS (FC/iSCSI/NFS).
- Monitor and tune storage performance (IOPS/throughput/latency) and plan capacity expansions.
Backup, DR & Resilience
- Ensure VM and app‑aware backups using Veeam/Commvault/Rubrik/Cohesity; maintain immutability and offsite copies as applicable.
- Participate in DR planning (SRM/HCX), maintain runbooks, and support RPO/RTO‑aligned DR drills and restore testing.
Security & Compliance
- Apply platform hardening (ESXi/vCenter/NSX‑T/vSAN), RBAC/least privilege, certificate/TLS management, and encryption controls.
- Remediate vulnerabilities and maintain audit/compliance evidence (ITIL/ISO/SOC as applicable).
Automation & Observability
- Automate routine operations with PowerCLI/PowerShell, Ansible, and Terraform/Aria (vRA/vRO); maintain reusable modules/playbooks.
- Implement and tune monitoring/alerting using Aria Operations (vROps), vRLI, Splunk/ELK, or Prometheus/Grafana; publish health/capacity dashboards.
- Keep CMDB/asset inventories, diagrams, SOPs, and runbooks current.
Operations Excellence
- Provide L2/L3 support, lead RCAs for virtualization incidents, and execute changes with solid risk/rollback plans.
- Collaborate closely with compute, network, storage, backup, security, DB, and app teams; participate in on‑call as needed.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5–8 years in data center/cloud operations with strong hands‑on VMware SDDC experience.
- Compute: vSphere/ESXi/vCenter (clusters, HA/DRS, lifecycle, templates, snapshots, vMotion).
- Network: Working knowledge of NSX‑T (segments, groups, DFW, LB basics) and physical network integration (VLANs, LACP, MTU).
- Storage: vSAN operations and SAN/NAS fundamentals (FC/iSCSI/NFS), SPBM and capacity/performance management.
- Backup/DR: Experience with Veeam/Commvault/Rubrik/Cohesity and DR concepts (SRM/HCX desirable).
- Automation: PowerCLI/PowerShell essential; Ansible and Terraform/Aria exposure preferred; Git workflows.
- Observability: vROps/Aria, vRLI, Splunk/ELK or Prometheus/Grafana; capacity and performance troubleshooting.
- Solid documentation, communication, and ITIL Incident/Change/Problem experience.
Educational qualifications
Bachelor’s degree
Location and way of working
Base location: Bangalore
Your role as a leader
We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.
In addition to living our purpose, leaders across our organization must strive to be:
Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for
the success of engagement(s)
Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive.
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