Technology Specialist (Cloud Solutions Architect - Presales)

Purpose:

We are seeking highly motivated, skilled and experienced Senior Cloud Solutions Architects to join our growing Cloud Technology Group team. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in crafting innovative cloud solutions that empower our clients to achieve their business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with clients to understand their business challenges, IT infrastructure, and cloud adoption goals and translate these requirements into solution approach, design & architecture & proposal considering factors like cost, performance, availability, scalability, security, and compliance, leveraging optimization strategies, best practices and industry standards.


• Design and architect full-stack cloud (native, hybrid, multi) solutions from select cloud-native and marketplace services and technologies based on specific client needs and project requirements considering aspects such as applications, data, infrastructure, network, security, and cloud technologies and services like DevOps, Edge, AI/ML.


• Create and propose solutions for either:


• Availability (high-availability, scalability, backup, disaster recovery)


• Security (compliance & governance, identity, data, network-related, endpoint, detection & response)


• Data (databases, data lake, data warehouse, governance, integration, analytics)


• Application Development (DevOps/DevSecOps, microservices, IaC, serverless, low-code/no-code), modernization/migration (application, data, infrastructure),


• Advanced Technologies (Edge, IOT, AI, ML) and


• Infrastructure (compute, storage, network, perimeter security, operating system)


• Lead customer engagement, communication, collaboration and collaborate with principal’s, supplier’s, and internal team’s subject matter experts (SME), center of excellence (COE) and engineers and developers to ensure complete validation of solution approach, design & architecture and components for all products and services.


• Create artifacts and documentations, presentation, proposals, technical documentation, BOM, SOW, SLA, RACI, high-level design & architecture.


• Orient sales teams on cloud solutions and services offerings, their value propositions, features & benefits, and competitive advantage.


• Cross-train, mentor and guide junior members and other technology groups’ team members fostering professional development within the organization.


• Stay current on evolving and latest cloud technologies and industry trends through continuous learning and research.


• Develop and maintain strong relationships with cloud principals, solutions & services partners and vendor management to stay informed about the partnership, offerings, support and engagement.

Core Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Timely submission of needed artifacts and documentations needed for proposal like solution presentation, solution approach, BOM, SOW, SLA, RACI, high-level design & architecture.


• Fool-proof design and architecture of cloud solutions and services that meet or exceed client expectations, as measured by compliance to requirements on budget, timeline, technical and overall proposal value.


• Provision of different cost models of various solutions approaches with respective design, architecture, scope, BOM, SOW, SLA, RACI, high-level design & architecture and included components, services, consumption options.


• Achievement of cloud certifications, new and renewal.

Core Skills, Expertise or working knowledge on:

• Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Sigmacloud


• Cloud Delivery Model (e.g. Public, Hybrid, Multi, Industry)


• Cloud computing concepts, principles, and best practices


• Cloud infrastructure design and implementation, including networking, storage, and compute services.


• Cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.


• Cloud cost optimization strategies.


• Virtualization, Containerization and Orchestration: VMWare, Hyper-V, AHV, Harvester, KVM, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Openshift


• Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools and methodologies (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).


• Cloud automation and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).


• DevOps principles, methodologies and tools.


• Data Engineering, Operations or Analytics principles, methodologies and tools.


• Services (Professional, Support and Managed)

Required Initial Certification:

• At least one valid Professional or Expert Architect Certification on any Cloud hyperscalers.