Presales Cloud Architect - AWS/Azure/GCP

Role Summary:

During the presales process, the presales Cloud Architect is working closely with clients, the Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise-strategic, industry, functional, technical-in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth. While the specific type of consulting work, they do can vary, it generally aligns to management consulting, systems integration consulting or technology consulting.

Job Description:

Cloud Infrastructure professionals develop and deliver hosting solutions to meet today’s growing demand for agile and cost-effective computing solutions. Using both private and public cloud technologies, our consulting professionals implement scalable, high performance hosting solutions that meet the need of today’s corporate and digital applications. Additionally, our teams plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to drive next-generation business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Eagerness to participate on a team designing or build digital journeys of cloud infrastructure focused solutions.
Develop and deliver strategies and solutions for enterprise infrastructure -- including servers, databases, storage devices, etc. -- that handle the data necessary for enterprise operations.

Thoroughly document all facets of the infrastructure solution.
Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.
Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.
Use considerable judgment to define solution and seeks guidance on complex problems.

Special skills / Experience required:

• Ability to build architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches and security.
• Serve as technical liaison between customers, engineering & support team.
• Collaborate with sales team to formulate / execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives.
• Establish credibility & build deep relationships with customer senior technical individuals to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS / Azure/GCP community.
• BA/BS with a minimum of five years of prior consulting/professional services and project management experience.
• Excellent verbal/written communications & org skills with ability to facilitate meetings and conduct consulting activities.
• Experience as a team lead in consultative role on customer engagements involving software application projects.
• Ability to be hands-on in leadership roles as well as manage others to execute and deliver project deliverables.
• Working knowledge all Azure web services, AWS and GCP
• Knowledge of the following also beneficial:
  • Cloud migration methodologies and processes, including tools like Cloudamize
  • Reference architecture development.
  • AWS/Azure/GCP-based architectures for web-based applications, etc.
  • DevOps on an AWS/Azure/GCP platform.

Requirements

• Preferred Skills:
  Candidate should have completed the following training:
• Developing AWS / Microsoft Azure Solutions/Google
• Implementing AWS / Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions/Google
• Architecting AWS / Microsoft Azure Solutions/Google
• Candidate must have completed the following certifications:
  MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect / AWS Certified Solutions Architect/Google Professional Cloud Architect
  Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills Proven ability to work independently.