GCP Presales Specialist

Ingram Micro; Delhi; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingram Micro in Delhi seeks an experienced Presales Cloud Architect to lead solution design for Google Cloud Platform. You will engage with customers, draft proposals, estimate costs, and drive partner enablement across India.

You will architect GCP-based cloud solutions, modernize legacy apps, mentor partner teams, and collaborate with sales to advance opportunities.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in IT architecture or presales solutions roles.
• 4–5 years focused on Google Cloud or hybrid cloud and modernization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication for non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Participate in pre-sales activities: solutioning, cost estimation, proposals, partner enablement.
• Lead presales RFP/RFI independently to build solution proposals.
• Drive modernization using GCP services, assess applications and migrations.
• Architect GCP-based cloud infrastructure and modernize legacy apps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to articulate concepts and influence teams.
• Mentor partner engineering teams and enforce best practices.
• Work with sales to qualify leads, present solutions, and attend customer/partner meetings across India.

Skills

Presales leadership

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Solution architecture

Cloud modernization

Multi-cloud

Generative AI exposure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Tools

GKE

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana)

VPC/Cloud Networking

Job description

Job Responsibility

• Participate in pre-sales activities, including solutioning, cost estimation, proposal presentations, and partner enablement sessions.
• Should be able to work independently on the Presales RFP/RFI to build solution proposals.
• Drive modernization initiatives leveraging a broad range of GCP services to improve performance and efficiency (conduct in-depth application and infrastructure assessments and define modernization and migration paths).
• Architect solutions on GCP-based cloud infrastructure, modernization of legacy applications to cloudnative architectures.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to articulate solution concepts and influence teams.
• Mentor partner engineering team and enforce best practices.
• Working closely with the sales team to qualify leads, present the solution effectively, answer technical questions, accompany the sales team to customer/partner locations across India (need basis) for partner/customer meetings, and represent Ingram Micro at various events/workshops.

Skills

• Strong working experience in Presales with a focus on Google’s GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Compute: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions Networking: VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Armor.
• Database & Storage: AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner for relational workloads. Firestore, Bigtable for NoSQL applications
• Security & IAM: Organization policies, IAM, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager, Security Command Center Operations: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, Cloud Trace.

Technical Skills

• Proven experience with Google infra, GKE, Terraform, Observability, CI/CD, Databases, and modernization projects. Strong expertise in Google Cloud Infrastructure and product solutions, and services.
• Hands-on experience with GKE, Terraform, and CI/CD tools.
• Demonstrated success in legacy system migration and cloud modernization (VMs Workload & Database modernization (SQL Server to PostgreSQL/AlloyDB).
• Knowledge of observability frameworks (e.g., Prometheus and Grafana).
• Good understanding of networking, security, and cloud-native architectures
• Strong expertise Knowledge of security best practices in cloud and distributed systems.
• Multi-cloud architectures with Cross-Cloud Interconnect
• Exposure to Generative AI and agentic frameworks.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications are a plus.
• Experience: 8 to 10 years in IT architecture or Presales solutions roles.
• Required: minimum 4 to 5 years focused on Google’s cloud/hybrid cloud, infrastructure modernization, or managed services.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to design solutions that address customer needs and challenges.
• Presentation: Proven experience in delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to a variety of audiences.

Certifications

• Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
• Optional: Google Cloud Certified, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Professional Cloud Database Engineer
• Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Associate Google Workspace Administrator