Senior Sales Expert

Orange; Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Plano (GA, IL, NY, TX); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Opportunities

Flexible Work Environment

Professional Development

Career Growth

Caring and Daring Culture

Reward Programs

Job summary

Orange is seeking a Senior Multi-Cloud Solution Director to lead presales design, sell and deliver Orange Cloud Technical Services for Large Multi-National customers. You will provide hands-on, business-oriented and technical expertise across cloud infrastructure, automation and data solutions.

You will drive go-to-market strategies, build customer relationships, promote cloud offerings and mentor presales teams while collaborating with internal and external stakeholders worldwide.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of cloud consulting experience.
• Experience in presales engineering and consulting.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive go-to-market strategies for cloud offerings with cross-functional teams.
• Build and maintain regional pipelines and grow areas of growth.
• Present and demonstrate cloud offerings to clients clearly and concisely.
• Lead technical design and delivery for cloud (network, security, data).
• Collaborate with Product Owners and SMEs to develop new solutions.

Skills

Cloud consulting experience

Presales engineering

Multi-cloud

English proficiency

Customer facing

Cloud platforms (Azure AWS GCP OCI)

Job description

About us

Join us at Orange Business!We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

About the role

The Senior Multi-Cloud Solution Director will be working inside our Solutions team to lead presales design, sell solutions and help deliver Orange Cloud Technical Services and Solutions to Large Multi-National customers (MNCs).

You will provide hands-on, business-oriented and technical expertise to our customers for cloud infrastructure, automation and cloud data solutions.

Mission and main activities:

• Drive the development of new go-to-market strategies for cloud offerings in collaboration with marketing, sales, and technical teams.
• Build and maintain relationships with potential and existing customers and partners.
• Promote cloud-based solutions and services to clients and internal sales teams.
• Identify and qualify new business opportunities, build a regional pipeline
• Regularly educate presales and sales teams to enhance their knowledge and awareness of Orange cloud solutions and services portfolio as well as market changes that affect our clients.
• Contribute to RFP technical and solution responses.
• Technically support presales to close deals utilizing your knowledge on solutions
• Present and demonstrate personalized cloud offerings to clients clearly and concisely.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure customer satisfaction and successful project delivery.
• Monitor market trends and the competitive landscape to stay updated on industry developments.
• Assist in developing marketing materials and attending industry events to promote cloud solutions.
• Provide customer facing expertise on multiple platforms and services including 3rd party partner offers (e.g. VMware Cloud Foundation, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, HPE Greenlake, Dell Apex)
• Provide customer facing expertise on Orange Cloud infrastructure network services, Cloud security and Infrastructure virtualisation.
• Advise and improve on cloud platform infrastructures and ability to design auto-scaling with terraform, ansible, aviatrix etc.
• Assessment and auditing of customer environments and provide consultancy for improvements and remediation.
• Suggest ways to improve and reduce Cloud operational costs.
• Work with Product Owners and SMEs to assist in the development of new solutions or products.
• Provide technical leadership in provisioning and maintaining a multi-tenant hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Cloud migrations – audit and perform post migration analysis where required.
• Compose, publish and manage technical sales documentation.
• Participation in disaster recovery solution design

Technical and soft skills:Extensive hands-on experience using Cloud services: Cloud Security, Cloud Networking, Virtual Machines, Data Analytics, Container, Storage, ELB, Auto Scaling and Analytics Service.

• Ability to create and manage a regional pipeline and define areas of growth
• Deep understanding of cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI etc)
• Expert in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform /hybrid clouds (such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, OCI).
• Solution Experience with Private Cloud solutions from Dell, HPE, Cisco
• Solution Experience with VMWare, OpenStack, Nutanix
• Solution Experience with Splunk, LIveNX, Aviatrix, Itential (desired)
• Solution Experience with Snowflake and Databricks (desired)
• Good understanding of Application, Infrastructure, security and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability etc
• Working awareness of Linux/Unix environments and scripting languages like Python, Perl, and Shell.
• Ability to review deployment and delivery pipelines i.e., implement initiatives to minimize chances of failure, identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
• Experience in designing and building data factories and data lakes, data warehouses.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills by leveraging the latest trends in technologies such as AI, Cloud and Big Data.
• Handle ambiguity and able to move forward with imperfect information and get things done in a rapidly changing environment.
• End to end delivery of solutions from requirements gathering, design, configuration and handover.
• Collaboration with stakeholders at all levels.
• Must be comfortable working in an environment where ideas are challenged and processes are complex.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment with handling teams and customers in multiple time zones.
• Ability to contribute to Enterprise Architecture discussions and alignment of process with business goals.
• Excellent communication skills and teamwork.

Your profile:

• Experience in customer facing hands on technical design and delivery of cloud (Network, Security, Analytics, Data, OpenStack, Azure, AWS, Google). Experience in multi-cloud technology and optimization with a proven record.
• Bringing your extensive experience in Infrastructure engineering and supporting cloud-based infrastructure and your knowledge of Landing Zones, scripts, networking, security and multi-cloud best practise.
• Proven ability to apply technical skillset to a presales engineering/presales consulting situations

Travel: As required to customers and internally.

Qualifications:

• Minimum4years ofcloud consultingexperience
• Minimum8years of experience in the IT industry
• 1-2year of presales engineering/consultingdesired
• Customer technical facing experience.
• Cloud accreditation in AWSandAzure,Google Cloud, OCIorVMWare a plus.
• Excellent communication,presentationand problem-solving skills.
• Languageproficiency: English (required); Spanish, Portuguese, or French.
• BS/BA desired, MS/MBA a plus
• VA Salary Range $172,550 - $213,150
• NY Salary Range $190,000 - $235,200

About you

Join a team of Professionals dedicated to innovative solutions Go to Market for Global US and LAM companies with strong focus on growing our international business with leveraging new technologies in all the parts of the world.

You bring rigor, passion for challenges, and determination. You seek the opportunity to expand your expertise, achieve your goals, and thrive.

What we offer

• Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.
• Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).
• Professional Development: Training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.
• Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.
• Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.
• Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.

Only your skills matter

Regardless of your age, gender identity, race, ethnic origin, religion/belief, sexual orientation, marital status, neurotype, disability, veteran status or appearance, we encourage diversity within our teams because it is a strength for the collective and a vector of innovation. Orange Group is a disabled-friendly company and equal opportunity employer: don't hesitate to tell us about your specific needs.