Job Description

Job Overview

As a Cloud Solutions Architect, your primary responsibility is to collaborate closely with sales teams and customers to understand their objectives, technical requirements, and desired outcomes. You will lead pre-sales engagements, conducting discovery workshops to delve into both the business and technical aspects of customer needs. Your focus will extend beyond individual products to crafting comprehensive, end-to-end solutions that align with business objectives and IT goals.

Job Responsibilities

Working in partnership with the sales teams, lead the pre-sales engagement with customers to understand desired customer outcomes, technical objectives, and services requirements.
Lead discovery workshops with customers to understand their business and technical drivers including application onboarding discovery of deployment-ready application workloads.
Think past individual products and to design high level end-to-end solutions to meet the business outcomes and IT objectives, create end to end solutions to meet the business outcomes.
Ensure that proposals, solution designs and Statements Of Work are technically sound and competitive.
Provide Architecture Design, review and guidance for Public Cloud application including; monitoring, management, disaster recovery, security compliance/auditing, networking, storage, service brokers and build packs.
Work with internal stakeholders to define its overall technology strategy and create a roadmap for implementing new solutions.
Analyze business requirements and identify areas where technology can be used to improve efficiency and productivity.
Assess available technologies and recommend the best options for meeting customers’ requirements.
Coordinate and collaborate with internal resources for the implementation of new solutions. To work with development teams to ensure that the solutions are built and implemented in a timely and effective manner.
Optimize its technology investments to reduce costs.
Assess the total cost of ownership for different technology solutions and recommend options that provide the best return on investment.

Job Requirements

4+ year experience in Public Cloud architecture, design and implementation of critical applications.
3+ years IaaS experience (AWS / Azure / GCP)
Pre-sales Consulting experience, including time supporting sales and liaising with technical practices and delivery will be an added advantage.
Good knowledge of Linux / Unix / Windows systems
Good knowledge of networking and related technologies (e.g. load balancing / DNS / SSL / firewalls / NAT)
Experience with production systems and dealing with production issues
A clear understanding of cloud service and deployment models
Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.
Strong communication skills (written & verbal) in English
Team player but capable of working independently where required
Having experience to work on large scale projects
Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure required
Certified AWS Solution Architect or Azure Solution Architect will be an added advantage