Sr. Solutions Architect, Data Center, Cloud (Philadelphia, PA)

About the role

The Role: Sr Solutions Architect
Presidio is seeking a Data Center focused Senior level Solutions Architect to join our team in the Philadelphia region. The Data Center Solutions Architect role will act as a strategic pre-sales engineering resource for data center and hybrid cloud solutions from market-leading manufacturers like Dell-EMC, Cisco, and VMware. Successful candidates must be a “thought-leader” in the area of next-generation data center technologies and understand how Presidio can add value through these solutions for our clients. Candidates should have a strong, proven IT background, a passion for solving business problems with technology, and familiarity with the broad range of products and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Meet with Presidio’s customers, collecting requirements for infrastructure solutions relating to data center and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Present and explain technologies to customers, guide them through requirements gathering and formulate a solution consisting of hardware, software, licensing, and engineering services.
• Create detailed solutions designs/architecture and present to customers.
• Create Bill of Materials & Configurations for solutions.
• Work with Account Manager/Sales Team to develop customer relationships and solutions to assist in the sales process.
• Create Customer facing Presentations and perform product demonstrations.
• Build Scope of Services, Task Lists and Professional Service Pricing.
• Collaborate with vendor peers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
• 7+ years of architecting and implementing complex Data Center solutions
• Strong Experience with Dell EMC (Servers, Storage and Data Protection), Cisco (servers & FC switching) and/or VMWare (virtualization and SDDC)
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) experience with VxRail, HyperFlex and/or Nutanix
• Proven design, sizing and implementation experience with server compute, data protection and storage solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

Preferred Skills And Professional Experience

• Presales experience
• Data Protection experience with Veeam, Rubrik or Cohesity
• AWS and/or Azure experience and certifications
• Enterprise Networking knowledge and experience (Cisco/Juniper)
• Prior experience working for a system integrator or consulting organization
• Experience migrating an on-premise to on-premise environments or on-premise to any cloud environment
• Basic knowledge of automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc)
• Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Remote work with occasional travel up to 25% within the region based in Philadelphia, PA