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Candidates will be primarily responsible for the overall health, stability, security, performance, and lifecycle management of virtualization and compute platforms in our managed services customer environments. Candidates will serve as a senior member of the Managed Services Virtualization team, providing tier 3 technical leadership for virtualization technologies, complex incidents, platform improvements, and customer outcomes. The role participates in 24x7 operations and an on-call rotation. 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Reconcile documentation against authoritative platform, CMDB, monitoring, and inventory sources\nEnsure that clients' infrastructure is healthy, stable, secure, documented, and configured with accepted technical best practices\nPerform recurring operational-risk reviews and identify opportunities to improve platform stability, supportability, monitoring coverage, security posture, automation, and service consistency\nSupport annual architecture, capacity, lifecycle, and standard-operating-procedure reviews, and provide technical inputs for quarterly business reviews or other strategic client reviews\nOwn the technical execution of assigned client onboarding and offboarding activities, including access validation, monitoring coverage, vendor access, initial documentation, known-issue identification, and EoS/EoL review\nProvide clear technical context, risk, impact, dependencies, recommended actions, and next steps to Client Success Managers and customer technical contacts. 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