Overview:
This role leads pre-sales activities for the Cloud & Data Center portfolio in North America, driving winnable propositions and strategic solutions to achieve revenue growth.
Responsibilities:
- Client Engagement:
- Prepare & deliver client pitches and presentations.
- Respond to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs with compelling proposals.
- Collaborate with partners and internal teams on new solutions.
- Provide technical input and identify new opportunities for existing clients.
- Strategic Planning:
- Partner with Sales to refine GTM strategy and offerings.
- Assist sales teams in converting leads and opportunities into wins.
Technical Expertise:
- Knowledge of Azure/GCP/AWS services, architecture, and implementation.
- Experience architecting, designing, and implementing large-scale Cloud/Datacenter transformation solutions.
- Expertise in complex deals involving Private/Hybrid Clouds, Compute, Infrastructure, VMware, Databases, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, and Automation.
- Experience working on large deals.
- Strong understanding of virtualization platforms (Hyper-V, VMware).
- Familiarity with network technologies (routing, DNS, load balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, HTTP).
- Security knowledge (firewalls, encryption, key management, identity & access).
- Deep expertise and hands-on experience with IaaS/PaaS/Serverless services on a leading public cloud platform.
Technical Skills:
- Experience with infrastructure deployment, configuration management, and chaos engineering tools (CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Terraform, Helm; Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, Juju; etc.).
- Experience managing medium/large scale environments (routing, scaling, logging, security, monitoring).
- Understanding of modern application architectures, APIs, app lifecycle management, release strategies, and 12-factor apps.
- Agile development methods, DevOps principles, design for failure, chaos engineering, & IaC.
- Strong scripting skills for automation and Infrastructure as Code experience.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent collaboration skills with developers, infrastructure teams, architects, and business owners.
- Effective communication (verbal and written) of complex technical concepts.
- Continuous learning mindset and enthusiasm for automation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to have CXO level conversations.
- Ownership and drive to excel.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from a leading institute.
- 5+ years of experience in technology consulting delivery.
- 5+ yrs of experience on public cloud platforms and related infrastructure technologies.
- 10+ yrs of experience in Data Center transformation/operations.
- Experience with IT service providers supporting external clients.
Key Skills: Presales, Datacenter, infrastructure, RPF, RFI, RFQ