Senior IT Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales) — Cloud & Data Center

GST, Inc; Cerritos (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Additional company perks

Job summary

GST, Inc. seeks an IT Senior Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales activities, design enterprise IT solutions, and align with customer business goals.

You will partner with sales, customers, and partners to craft architectures spanning data center, cloud, networking, virtualization, storage, and security, delivering compelling proposals and roadmaps. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in enterprise IT, strong communications skills, and relevant certifications, with a focus on translating

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure, solutions architecture, or related fields.
• Experience designing data center, cloud, networking, virtualization, and storage solutions.
• Experience creating quotes, proposals, and Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Industry certifications (CCNA, CCNP, VCP, VMware, Microsoft, Aruba, HPE, Dell, or similar) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives to identify, develop, and close customer opportunities.
• Conduct technical discovery sessions to assess environments, requirements, and goals.
• Design and recommend enterprise infrastructure solutions across compute, storage, network, virtualization, cloud, and security.
• Develop and present technical proposals, solution designs, and SOWs.
• Deliver customer presentations, demos, and whiteboard sessions to communicate value.

Skills

Enterprise IT infrastructure

Solution architecture

Pre-sales

Customer relations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

Tools

HPE

Dell

Lenovo

Cisco

VMware

Microsoft

Aruba

Job description

GST, Inc. seeks an IT Senior Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales activities, design enterprise IT solutions, and align with customer business goals.

You will partner with sales, customers, and partners to craft architectures spanning data center, cloud, networking, virtualization, storage, and security, delivering compelling proposals and roadmaps. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in enterprise IT, strong communications skills, and relevant certifications, with a focus on translating