Zerto Solution Architect - NYC, NY

Lorven Technologies Inc

New York, NY, United States

2 months ago

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Role details

Contract type

Temporary to permanent

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.careerjet.com

Tech stack

Multitier Architecture Microsoft Azure Computer Engineering VMware ESX Servers VMware VSphere Information Technology Ibm Z/vm Vcenter Vmware

Job description

The Zerto Solution Architect is the platform SME for all Zerto-based replication and DR orchestration on the program. This role designs the end-to-end Zerto architecture - ZVM placement, VRA deployment, journal sizing, VPG topology,and run book design - and is responsible for ensuring Tier-0 and Tier-1 workloads achieve the seconds-grade RPO that Zerto provides., * Zerto Architecture: Design Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) placement on-prem and in Azure, Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) deployment strategy across VMware hosts, and Zerto cluster topology.

Journal & VPG Design: Calculate journal sizing per VPG based on change rate, retention windows, and storage performance; define seeding strategies and bandwidth throttling/compression policies.
Workload Protection Strategy: Define VPG groupings aligned with application tiers and boot order, set RPOtargets per tier, and design failover/failback runbooks (Recovery Plans).
Tool Selection: Determine which workloads are protected by Zerto vs ASR based on RPO requirements, application criticality, and licensing economics.
Design Documentation: Author Zerto sections of the Architecture Design Document, Zerto runbook templates, monitoring and alerting design (metrics, dashboards, thresholds, escalation

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science, Information technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline or equivalent experience with 15+ Minimum Experience
Zerto Certified Professional (ZCP) Enterprise Engineer or Zerto Certified Architect; current on latest Zerto release (10.x+).
12+ years of enterprise infrastructure / DR architecture;
5+ years deep, hands-on Zerto platform experience including VMware-to-Azure replication.
Demonstrated experience implementing Zerto for 500+ VM environments with complex multi-tier application dependencies.
Strong VMware vSphere knowledge (vCenter, ESXi, storage, networking) and Azure target-side networking and storage.
VMware VCP-DCV or VCAP-DCV Design.
Microsoft AZ-104 / AZ-305 strongly preferred to bridge with the Azure SA.
Zerto HLD/LLD, journal sizing model, VPG inventory and grouping plan, failover runbooks (Recovery Plans), DRtest design, Zerto monitoring and alerting design, sign-off package