Hybrid Cloud Architect - Pre-Sales

Company: Talent
Location: Stratford
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

One of my most active clients, a mid sized Cloud Solutions Provider, has an urgent hiring need to bring on a Hybrid Cloud Architect to their Pre-Sales team.
They need an experienced Architect who has worked on both Public and Private Cloud and maintains a deep understanding of Kubernetes, Infra automation, as well as a background in a datacenter/telco environment.
In this position you will be:

• Supporting sales account executives working with customers ranging from admins to CxOs to strategize, uncover opportunities, educate, design, and package client infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• Leveraging datacenter infrastructure experience with responsibilities including design, capacity planning, hardware and cloud sizing, BOM creation, testing and validation, hands-on configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Creating and delivering presentations that demonstrate our core capabilities as well as the technical solutions you create.
  Required skills and qualifications:
  • 5 years minimum experience in various on-premises or public cloud technologies.
  • Strong sizing, design, and deployment knowledge for on-premises or public cloud platforms
  • Knowledge of and some experience around infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automation is required for this role
  • Architecture level understanding and practical experience with VMware, OpenStack, OpenShift, and/or other Kubernetes based distributions.
  • Knowledge and some experience around service mesh concept, designs, and products.
  • Knowledge and some experience around hybrid cloud security and networking is a plus.
  • Experience with telco/communication and service provider verticals is a plus.
  • Experience with edge computing platforms, services, and deployments including but including but not limited to: MEC, NFV, distributed edge, AWS IOT, Azure IOT, and Google IOT services is a plus.
  • Must have strong work ethic, be coachable, and eager to learn new technologies.
  • Analytically minded, critical thinker, and be an active and willing listener to customer problems.
    Individuals from the following backgrounds are highly sought after:
    • Senior IT admin backgrounds.
    • Lab benchmarking, and/or R&D backgrounds.
    • Experience with deploying VMware, OpenStack, OpenShift, Canonical JuJu & MaaS and other bare metal or BMaaS platforms.
    • Public IaaS configuration and deployment professionals with a strong hybrid cloud and private cloud backgrounds.
    • Infrastructure deployment backgrounds across any vertical.
    • Proof of concept and/or customer facing demonstration teams.
    • Systems engineers with strong hybrid cloud hands-on experience.
      Support engineers looking to change the trajectory of their career by becoming customer facing technologists while maintaining their technical acumen.

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