Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect

Description

About The Role:

We are looking for a Hybrid Cloud Solutions Architect with Experience in Presales, Solution Architecture, TCO propositions for Public, Private & software defined Datacenter & Cloud. Candidate will be required to architect solutions leveraging AWS, VMWare, Azure, Private Cloud across varied technologies: Compute, Storage, Backup, DR, Network, Hypervisors, Security etc.

Key Responsibilities of the Role:

Own and deliver on RFX based solution proposals with a major emphasis on value engineering for our customers and prospects.
Deliver collaterals, industry trends and point of views PoVs, client visit presentations, thought leadership articles etc.
Closely work with Sales, Presales, Alliance Team to build relevant partnerships with major solution providers, service providers with complementary skills
Conceptualize and develop framework, accelerators or solutions for specific needs
Periodic reviews with leadership team on service line operations, progress and overall direction

Essential Skills:

Hands-on-experience in solution activities: Proposal Creation, RFP response, Business cases for Cloud & DC Hosting, Migration.
Collaborate with Delivery teams for Knowledge Repository Management, Case Studies, Service Offering Presentations
Experience of architecting solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.
Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers
Experience working within the Enterprise software market or Internet industries
Knowledge and understanding of Enterprise application and database architectures
Experience of storage architectures and use cases such as IOPS, Performance Storage, Archival storage & Object storage.
Experience in IP networking, VPN, DNS, Load balancing, Global site load balancing, web application firewalls.
Experience in architecting and designing Cloud migration approaches, datacenter migration, application migration.
Strong presentation and written communication with the Ability to present the Value proposition
Ability to analyze, depict and devise propositions on different scenarios on premise – Off premise, TCO / ROI calculations etc.
Work with internal and external partners in devising the architectures

Essential Qualifications:

Minimum 14+ years of experience in Solution Architectures, Presales, development, and successful execution
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Engineering / IT Graduate Background, Management Degree preferred.
Experience working in Leading partners solutions such as– NetApp, EMC, HP, Juniper, Arista etc., Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP etc.
Skills and Certifications on AWS, Vmware Suites, Microsoft Azure, Hypervisors – VMware, Hyper V, RHEV, KVM.