Partner Solutions Architect - Huawei Cloud

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

 At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have more than 180,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions.

 Huawei's end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services are both competitive and secure. Through open collaboration with ecosystem partners, we create lasting value for our customers, working to empower people, enrich home life, and inspire innovation in organizations of all shapes and sizes.

About the position

You're a Partner Solutions Architect with excellent technical, communication, and organizational skills, previous experience in cloud platform and infrastructure products, combined with experience and deep knowledge of software as a service (SaaS). Your expertise and presentation skills will be on display as you engage with partners to understand their business and technical requirements, and persuasively present practical and useful solutions on Huawei Cloud.

In this role, you will work hand-in-hand with the Partner team to provide technical consulting, coordination, and problem solving to technology partners and ISVs who build on or integrate with the Huawei Cloud. 

• Work with Partner Development Managers to identify and recruit technology partners for Huawei Cloud. Travel to partner sites, conferences, and other related events as required.
• Engage and work hands-on with partner technical representatives to incorporate their existing solutions with Huawei Cloud, or develop partners to build solutions that maximize advantages of using Huawei Cloud. Help partners to acquire appropriate skills, or complement their skills, so they can effectively use Huawei Cloud technologies.
• Advise on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution, providing “best practice” advice to customers and partners to optimize Huawei Cloud effectiveness.
• Act as a technical advocate within Huawei for our cloud technology partners and provide feedback from the field to Engineering teams.
• Provide in-depth application development and deployment expertise to support the technical relationship with Huawei’s partners, including product and solution briefings, proof-of-concept work, and partner directly with product management to prioritize solutions impacting partner adoption to Huawei Cloud.

Skills & Experience

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• +3 years of experience with cloud computing (e.g. public/private clouds, compute/storage/networking, Software/Platform/Infrastructure-as-a-Service).
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment concepts.
• Fluent in English, excellent communication skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Demonstrated record of working in a similar position (e.g. Technical Sales Engineer, Partner Engineer, etc) in a cloud computing environment or equivalent experience in a customer and/or partner-facing role (including working as a member of a Professional Services, Solutions Architect or Systems Engineering team).
• Experience with developing scalable architectures using API management, microservice frameworks (i.e. Spring Cloud, Istio), container orchestration systems (i.e. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Docker) and networking concepts including: routing, VPNs, load balancers and firewalls.
• Programming experience in one of the following languages: Python, Java or Go. Experience implementing tools to improve software building toolchains and to ease integration of 3rd party solutions.
• Developer operations experience in automated IT infrastructure (e.g. Chef or Puppet) and cloud application monitoring and debugging tools.
• Highly motivated with the ability to thrive in a fluid, demanding and fast-paced environment
• Additional European languages would be a plus