Senior Datacenter Solutions Architect - Pre-Sales & Cloud

Presidio, Inc; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Presidio is seeking an Architect - Datacenter/Sr Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales discovery and architect datacenter solutions across compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud. You will collaborate with vendors such as Dell/EMC, Pure, Cisco, VMware, Nutanix, AWS, and Azure, and guide proof-of-concept work, architecture design sessions, and statements of work.

Expected travel up to 25%, with roles based in Detroit or Grand Rapids, MI, and partnering with internal teams to refine sales

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years designing and implementing complex datacenter solutions.
• 3+ years working with mid-market and enterprise environments across multiple verticals.

Responsibilities

• Position yourself as a trusted advisor with customers and understand requirements.
• Provide recommendations for solutions and strategies.
• Partner with vendor-partners to build trusted relationships and expertise.
• Create functional designs and reference architectures for projects.
• Design solutions addressing availability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Create and deliver technical artifacts, drawings, and diagrams for clients.
• Demonstrate products/solutions to enhance sales outcomes.
• Collaborate with project teams to improve Presidio’s IP.
• Stay current on datacenter developments and partner technologies.
• Engage with sales to build robust customer solutions.
• Perform customer assessments to support design and ongoing support.

Skills

Cisco UCS

Dell

Pure

Core networking

Virtualization

Operating systems

Storage fundamentals

Verbal & written communication

Presentation & whiteboarding

Collaborative work with teams

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

VMware vSphere

Nutanix

Puppet

Ansible

vRealize

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Presidio is seeking an Architect - Datacenter/Sr Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales discovery and architect datacenter solutions across compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud. You will collaborate with vendors such as Dell/EMC, Pure, Cisco, VMware, Nutanix, AWS, and Azure, and guide proof-of-concept work, architecture design sessions, and statements of work.

Expected travel up to 25%, with roles based in Detroit or Grand Rapids, MI, and partnering with internal teams to refine sales