Sr. Solutions Architect, Data Center (Philadelphia, PA)

Presidio • Upper Merion Township, PA

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

Presidio is seeking a Data Center focused Senior level Solutions Architect to join our team in the Philadelphia region. The Data Center Solutions Architect role will act as a strategic pre-sales engineering resource for data center and hybrid cloud solutions from market-leading manufacturers like Dell-EMC, Cisco, and VMware. Successful candidates must be a “thought-leader” in the area of next-generation data center technologies and understand how Presidio can add value through these solutions for our clients. Candidates should have a strong, proven IT background, a passion for solving business problems with technology, and familiarity with the broad range of products and solutions. The majority of time for this position is spent meeting with customers at their locations and working remotely, so the successful candidate will not need to report to a Presidio office. The job is focused primarily in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
• 7+ years of architecting and implementing complex Data Center solutions
• Strong Experience with Dell EMC (Servers, Storage and Data Protection), Cisco (servers & FC switching) and/or VMWare (virtualization and SDDC)
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) experience with VxRail, HyperFlex and/or Nutanix
• Proven design, sizing and implementation experience with server compute, data protection and storage solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

Nice To Haves

• Presales experience
• Data Protection experience with Veeam, Rubrik or Cohesity.
• AWS and/or Azure experience and certifications.
• Enterprise Networking knowledge and experience (Cisco/Juniper)
• Prior experience working for a system integrator or consulting organization
• Experience migrating an on-premise to on-premise environments or on-premise to any cloud environment
• Basic knowledge of automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc)
• Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Meet with Presidio’s customers, collecting requirements for infrastructure solutions relating to data center and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Present and explain technologies to customers, guide them through requirements gathering and formulate a solution consisting of hardware, software, licensing, and engineering services
• Create detailed solutions designs/architecture and present to customers
• Create Bill of Materials & Configurations for solutions
• Work with Account Manager/Sales Team to develop customer relationships and solutions to assist in the sales process
• Create Customer facing Presentations and perform product demonstrations
• Build Scope of Services, Task Lists and Professional Service Pricing
• Collaborate with vendor peers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree