Solutions Architect: Cloud, Security & Transformation

Ekco; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + public holidays

Birthday Leave

Company Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Pluralsight access

International progression

Job summary

Ekco is seeking a highly skilled Solutions Architect to bridge business needs and technology, working with sales, clients and delivery teams to design scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud and modern workplace solutions.

The ideal candidate will have broad infrastructure, cloud, networking and security experience, plus strong commercial awareness and excellent customer engagement skills. Join a growing team delivering innovative cloud security and managed services.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud, migration, modernization and digital transformation.
• Designing networking including routing, switching, SD-WAN, VPNs and firewalls.
• Knowledge of virtualization platforms such as VMware/Hyper-V/Nutanix.
• Experience with identity, authentication and access management (AD/Entra ID/Okta).
• Understanding of cybersecurity including Zero Trust, SIEM, backup, DR and compliance.
• Experience with automation and IaC (Terraform/Ansible/Python/PowerShell).
• Understanding of cloud governance, cost optimization, licensing and commercial considerations.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead during presales, understanding business objectives and transformation goals.
• Design and present end-to-end solutions across cloud, on-premise, networking, security and collaboration platforms.
• Produce solution designs, project scopes and cost estimates.
• Deliver presentations, architecture workshops, demos and PoCs.
• Support delivery teams to ensure architectures are followed.
• Collaborate with account managers, vendors and partners to ensure viability and deliverability.
• Produce technical documentation including proposals, diagrams and implementation docs.
• Stay current with cloud, networking, cybersecurity and vendor roadmaps.
• Contribute to managed services offerings and sales enablement materials.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to colleagues.

Skills

Cloud design

Hybrid cloud

Networking design

Identity & access management

Cybersecurity principles

IaC (Terraform/Ansible/Python)

Cost governance

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder management

Presales / customer-facing

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

CloudFormation

Job description

Ekco is seeking a highly skilled Solutions Architect to bridge business needs and technology, working with sales, clients and delivery teams to design scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud and modern workplace solutions.

The ideal candidate will have broad infrastructure, cloud, networking and security experience, plus strong commercial awareness and excellent customer engagement skills. Join a growing team delivering innovative cloud security and managed services.