Be the subject matter expert responsible for the design of cloud services and infrastructure solutions that meet the current and future needs of the customer.
Design and create solutions that meet business requirements considering availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, security, and compliance.
Analyze the technical infrastructure problems, challenges, and complexities for private, hybrid or multi-cloud architecture and recommend improvements.
Analyze the technical and services requirements for RFPs, RFQs, RFIs, or ITQs and prepare a solution proposal that meets the requirements.
Evaluate and recommend new solutions that may potentially be beneficial to customer and to the company.
Enhance the technical capabilities through enablement, trainings and certifications.
Define the solution design and architecture for each project/opportunity in alignment with principal vendor partnership.
Collaborate with the respective principal vendor/ partners to design the proposed solution architecture in accordance to standards and policies.
Conduct proof-of-concept and evaluation of new products to determine the best technology to implement.
Liaise with technical teams as well as senior stakeholders, vendors, including peers from other departments.
Mentor and train junior team members.
Requirements
Minimum 2 years of related presales and/or solution design experience.
Working experience in the virtualization domain and/or hands-on working experience in VMware, Nutanix, Public Cloud IaaS, Public Cloud PaaS, Public Cloud DBaaS, Kubernetes and/or OpenShift.
Working experience with Microsoft Active Directory, MS Exchange, MS Failover Clustering, MS SQL High Availability, M365 and/or Hyper-V.
Working experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MySQL, Ansible, and/or shell scripting.
Working experience with Azure Cloud, AWS, or any public cloud provider.
Demonstrated knowledge of x86 Servers, SAN Storage, backup solution, basic datacenter networking and network security is a must.
Possess professional certifications in virtualization or cloud technologies (VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Nutanix, Azure, AWS, etc.)
Conversant with the current virtualization and cloud products and solutions.
Experience in VCF, NSX or SDDC is a plus.
Good techno-commercial as well as good communication skills (written and verbal).
Should have an analytical and logical approach towards solution design and problem solving.
