Senior Azure Solutions Architect - RapidScale

About the role

This role supports opportunities on the East coast and requires 25-35% travel to conferences, partner offices, and customer sites. At RapidScale, we deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds.

Responsibilities

• Provide Pre-Sales technical support to the GTM Team to drive revenue and cloud adoption
• Conduct full technical discovery and assessment workshops to identify pain points and gather business and technical requirements
• Architect client solutions to meet client requirements using a well architected framework methodology
• Clearly communicate proposed architectures in the pre-sales cycle for early validation and verification to the internal teams responsible for implementing and providing ongoing support
• Interface with Product Marketing and provide feedback for improving product quality and capabilities by leveraging information gathered in field engagements
• Create technical collateral (e.g. SOWs, HLDs), and help develop sales staff by providing formal training
• Provide thought leadership by speaking at industry events such as trade shows, panels or marketing events as well as publishing blog posts, white papers and participating in case studies

Requirements

• Relevant Industry-leading certification required: AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect - Expert)
• Deep understanding of the following Public Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS
• Understanding of containerization & virtualization technologies; e.g. Kubernetes, Docker
• Understanding of IAAS / PAAS / SAAS platforms; e.g. EC2, VMs, etc.
• Understanding IaC tools; e.g. Puppet, Ansible, ARM/Bicep, Terraform
• Understanding of different Disaster Recovery and data protection principles
• Understanding of PCI, HIPAA, GDPR regulatory compliance frameworks
• Expertise in networking, compute, storage and OS fundamentals

Qualifications

• A BA/BS Degree with 6+ years of experience, or a MS Degree with 4+ years of experience, or a Ph.D with one year of experience, or 10 years of overall experience without a degree
• Professional Level Public Cloud Certification (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Background and experience working in the context of a sales team
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability
• High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal organizations
• Ability to speak at public events in front of large audiences is a bonus

Skills

• Fluency in English

Benefits

• USD 155,200.00 - 232,800.00 Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $155,200.00 - $232,800.00. The salary rate may vary within the anticipated range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's experience.
• Annual incentive/commission target of $52,800.00
• Benefits include:
  • Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations
  • Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
  • Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave