Senior Solutions Architect, Data Center

Stellenbeschreibung:

Act as a strategic pre-sales engineering resource for data center and hybrid cloud solutions
Meet with customers to collect requirements for infrastructure solutions
Present and explain technologies to customers, guide requirements gathering, and formulate solutions involving hardware, software, licensing, and engineering services
Create detailed solution designs and architectures and present them to customers
Create bills of materials and configurations for solutions
Work with Account Managers and Sales Teams to develop customer relationships and sales solutions
Create customer-facing presentations and perform product demonstrations
Build scopes of services, task lists, and professional service pricing
Collaborate with vendor peers

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
7+ years of architecting and implementing complex Data Center solutions
Strong experience with Dell EMC (Servers, Storage and Data Protection), Cisco (servers & FC switching) and/or VMware (virtualization and SDDC)
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) experience with VxRail, HyperFlex and/or Nutanix
Proven design, sizing and implementation experience with server compute, data protection and storage solutions
Strong verbal and written communications skills, and ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
Preferred: presales experience
Preferred: Data Protection experience with Veeam, Rubrik or Cohesity
Preferred: AWS and/or Azure experience and certifications
Preferred: Enterprise Networking knowledge and experience (Cisco/Juniper)
Preferred: Prior experience working for a system integrator or consulting organization
Preferred: Experience migrating on-premise to on-premise environments or on-premise to any cloud environment
Preferred: Basic knowledge of automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
Preferred: Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in architecting and implementing complex Data Center solutions, with a strong focus on customer engagement, solution design, and collaboration with sales teams. Proficient in utilizing technologies such as Dell EMC, Cisco, VMware, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure to deliver tailored infrastructure solutions.