Technical Presales Engineer (Cloud Solutions Architect)

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Job Summary

Technical Presales Engineer (Cloud Solutions Architect)

Department: Technical
Reporting Line: Pre Sales Manager (Cloud Solutions Manager)
Responsibilities

• The Technical Pre sales (Cloud Solutions Architect) engineer will provide technical and business consultative The specific responsibilities shall include:

• Provide technical and business consultative leadership throughout the technical life cycle of cloud solutions

• Will be involved from pre-sales cloud solution formulation through system deployment; as well as bid preparation and customer interface resulting in cloud solutions architecture proposals

• Develop and articulate cloud solutions based on customers’ strategic business/technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customers’ organization

• Design cloud solutions for Managed Service customers in line with ITIL and/or industry best practice

• Drive major cloud initiatives with a focus on the bottom line impact

• Manage and develop strategic partnerships with third party suppliers and internal stakeholders for Cloud Aggregators or Managed Service Providers

• Ensure quality, up to date documentation are maintained for all cloud service arrangements

• Coordinate with the sales team in formulating and building up proposals, including making technical demos and presentations to customers

Communications and Work Relationships

• The successful candidate will be required to work closely with the:

  • Technical team (IP ,Operations Support, Technical Sales)

  • Information Technology (IT) team

  • Service Delivery team

  • Sales team

Qualifications

• BSc in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical degree

• Proven years of experience architecting cloud solutions

• Proven years’ experience in a virtualization environment

• Certifications in Linux, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Microsoft System Centre, VMware, Storage, and other Cloud Technologies considered a plus for this position

• Experience with VMware products (vSphere, vCloud Director)

• Proven years of experience across the business development lifecycle (Business Development, Capture, Solution Architect, Pricing and Proposal Development)

• Proven years of experience in designing, architecture, and implementing enterprise applications and systems

• Proven years industry experience

• Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services. Certification in Azure or any formal training preferred

• Thorough understanding of Cloud Computing and Virtualization

• Demonstrable experience with infrastructure (hypervisors, networking, storage, load balancers, firewalls, monitoring etc.)

• Experience, knowledge and ability to cloud solution service offering across all three tiers:

  • Infrastructure (including outsourcing best practices, transition, and ITIL)

  • Application Development and Maintenance

  • System Integration and Management

• Experience with Microsoft public, hybrid and private cloud will be an added advantage

Competencies Required

• Holistic understanding of internet and hosting from the network layer up through the application layer

• Outstanding understanding of available cloud technologies

• Demonstrated ability to conduct technical studies and evaluations of business requirements – and successful implementations of recommended solutions

• Familiar with application design best practices

• Experience with Security devices (Firewalls e.t.c.)

• Experience of Network configuration

• Must have strong Windows/Linux/Unix skills

• Experience in migrating applications to the Cloud environments; reviewing and evaluating potential solutions for external/internal customers

• Experience relating business requirements to system and infrastructure components and designing the bill of materials for a project

• Creative and innovative approach.

• Proactive with a positive 'can do' approach

• Sound commercial business understanding and risk awareness

• Excellent presentation and leadership skills

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills

Demands of the Job

• Ability to work long hours and meet tight deadlines

• Ability to work with minimal supervision

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This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.