GCP Presales Specialist

Ingram Micro, Inc.; New Delhi; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingram Micro, Inc. is seeking an experienced Cloud Presales Architect focusing on Google Cloud Platform to lead solutioning, present proposals, and estimate costs. You will drive modernization with GCP services, architect cloud-native migrations, and collaborate with sales and partners across India.

You will mentor partner teams, ensure best practices, and travel for customer meetings as required, shaping the technical solution for large-scale deployments.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in IT architecture or presales solutions roles.
• Minimum 4–5 years focused on Google cloud/hybrid cloud and modernization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication for technical audiences.
• Ability to design solutions addressing customer needs and challenges.

Responsibilities

• Participate in pre-sales activities including solutioning, cost estimation, proposal presentations, and partner enablement sessions.
• Independently handle Presales RFP/RFI to build solution proposals.
• Drive modernization initiatives leveraging GCP services to improve performance and efficiency.
• Architect solutions on 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, answer questions, and travel across India for meetings.

Skills

Presales

GCP

GKE

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Networking

Multi-cloud

Generative AI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Logging

Job description

It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!

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