Cloud Solution Architect I- Presales @ Rackspace Technology

Job Description:

Pre-Sales Solution Architects provide commercial, technical, service and solution leadership. Using defined products and services with optional customisation, they partner with internal teams and external partners/ vendors to deliver solutions on time, specification, and budget. They are members of a pursuit team throughout the sales lifecycle providing resource and capability for the creation of solutions assisting in the objective for our customers technology and transformation initiatives. For larger and/or more complex opportunities, one or more Solutions Architects may work as part of a larger solutions/pursuit team with our Solution Leads, Solutions Directors and or Bid Management team and will be primarily responsible for delivering the technical and architecture components of the overall solution response. As role models for their discipline, Solutions Architects use their brand both internally and externally to inspire, encourage and develop the next generation of Solutions Architects. With coaching, mentoring, training and development, a pathway exists to become tomorrow s Solution Lead or Team Lead.

 

Experience: - 3-5 years

Technical requirements:

Should have atleast 1 VMware based VCP certification which is valid

Should have broad knowledge around

Firewalls (Cisco/PA or similar)

Load Balancers (F5/Citrix or similar)

Network (Private/Public/HyperScaler connectivity)

Storage (sSAN, DSAN, VSAN)

Security (DDOS, WAF, Endpoint protection, Application security, CDN)

Monitoring Tools (AppDynamics, NewRelic etc.)

Non-Technical skills:

Good communication and presentation skills

Ability to create system/architecture diagram

Team collaboration

Knowledge sharing

Growth mindset

Focus on team and self-development

Nice to have:

More than 1VMware certification

Multi-Cloud certification from Hyperscalers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Knowledge of Kubernetes/Tanzu/Containers

Knowledge of OpenStack/OpenShift