Senior Data Center & Hybrid Cloud Architect

Ironbow; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Iron Bow Technologies in Herndon, VA is seeking a Principal Data Center Solutions Architect with deep enterprise data center, server, virtualization, and hybrid cloud expertise to join the CTO office's Data Center and Cloud practice.

This role will provide technical leadership and sales support for infrastructure modernization initiatives, delivering subject matter expertise across compute, virtualization, workload migration, storage, networking, data protection, and physical data center design.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of focused engineering or consulting experience in enterprise server, virtualization, data center, and hybrid cloud.
• Experience in pre-sales and post-sales roles, supporting government and enterprise clients.
• Bachelor-level degree in a technical discipline and relevant vendor certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Actively research, evaluate, and drive next-generation data center and hybrid cloud technologies to solve customer mission and business needs.
• Lead discovery, architecture, and solution development for complex data center modernization and migration initiatives.
• Architect multivendor server and virtualization solutions across VMware, Red Hat OpenShift, and Nutanix.
• Provide pre-sales support and serve as technical contact for escalations and post-sales consultations.
• Develop technical proposals, whitepapers, presentations, and sales collateral for Iron Bow solutions.
• Mentor engineers, establish architecture standards, and ensure technical quality across programs.

Skills

Enterprise data center

Server virtualization

Hybrid cloud

VMware vSphere

Red Hat OpenShift

Nutanix AHV

Cisco UCS

Dell PowerEdge

HPE OneView

Networking & storage

Data protection

Pre-sales support

Mentoring

Architecture standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / math / electrical engineering / information technology

Tools

VMware vSphere

Nutanix Prism

Red Hat OpenShift

Veeam

Rubrik

Commvault

Job description

Iron Bow Technologies in Herndon, VA is seeking a Principal Data Center Solutions Architect with deep enterprise data center, server, virtualization, and hybrid cloud expertise to join the CTO office's Data Center and Cloud practice.

This role will provide technical leadership and sales support for infrastructure modernization initiatives, delivering subject matter expertise across compute, virtualization, workload migration, storage, networking, data protection, and physical data center design.