Pre-Sales IT Solutions Architect — Enterprise Infrastructure

GST, Inc; Cerritos (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Additional company perks

Job summary

GST, Inc in Cerritos, CA is seeking an experienced IT Solutions Architect to join our team as a trusted technical advisor and pre-sales SME. The role spans data center, cloud, compute, storage, networking, and virtualization to design scalable enterprise IT solutions.

The ideal candidate translates complex concepts into business value, collaborates with sales, customers, and partners, and develops proposals, SOWs, and roadmaps while presenting architectures to executives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years designing or implementing enterprise IT infrastructure and data center solutions.
• Experience creating technical proposals, quotes, SOWs, and solution documentation.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise technologies and vendor ecosystems.
• Industry certifications preferred (CCNA, VCP, MCSE, PMP, CCSP, or equivalent).
• Ability to conduct technical discovery sessions and develop customer-focused architectures.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with executive-facing experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales teams to identify, develop, and close client opportunities.
• Participate in customer meetings, presentations, and technical discovery sessions.
• Gather and analyze customer requirements to design tailored IT solutions.
• Design and recommend enterprise infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, and data center tech.
• Develop proposals, solution architectures, scopes of work (SOWs), and supporting docs.
• Present technology strategies and roadmaps to customers and executives.
• Translate technical solutions into business value and communicate benefits clearly.
• Collaborate with manufacturers, vendors, and internal teams for competitive solutions.
• Maintain expertise in emerging technologies and obtain vendor certifications.
• Support technical evaluations, demonstrations, and PoC engagements.

Skills

Technical architecture

Pre-sales

Customer discovery

Vendor relations

Education

Associate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

HPE

Dell

Lenovo

Cisco

VMware

Microsoft

Aruba

Job description

GST, Inc in Cerritos, CA is seeking an experienced IT Solutions Architect to join our team as a trusted technical advisor and pre-sales SME. The role spans data center, cloud, compute, storage, networking, and virtualization to design scalable enterprise IT solutions.

The ideal candidate translates complex concepts into business value, collaborates with sales, customers, and partners, and develops proposals, SOWs, and roadmaps while presenting architectures to executives.