Solutions Architect Job in Cloudcover

The Solution Architect role at CloudCover comprises 3 primary duties:

• Pre Sale activities - work with a member of the Sales team to grow the CloudCover business and provide technical expertise to client discussions.
• Solution Design - design and architect solutions for clients that solve business problems in a cloud-native environment
• Collaborate with delivery- work with delivery teams to ensure systems as built match systems as designed

Required Skills

• Minimum 10 years experience in Cloud technology
• Minimum 3 years in pre-sales roles
• Previous experience as a cloud architect, network administrator or DevOps lead
• Business acumen - listen and understand client needs and problems
• Demonstrated experience in estimating architecture work.
• Ability to work closely with the Sales team in client engagements, ensure superior quality and content of RFP responses.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver product demonstrations to prospective clients and engage in functional level discussions on product aspects, features, and benefits.
• Ability to support the service delivery team to initiate pilot projects, demonstrations, proofs- of-concept (POC), evaluations, managed services projects and consulting projects.
• Experience with design and implement of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) based on the Public/Hybrid Cloud model.
• Experience with migrating from the No-VM environment to a VM on-prem or in cloud environments.
• Exhibit strong understanding of the managed cloud hosting business concepts (AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure), market practices and trends.
• Demonstrated skills and expertise with cloud architecture best practices
• Extensive experience in Lift and shift migrations.
• Experience in set up and maintenance of Data Centre & Managed Cloud Services.
• Demonstrated skills and expertise in virtualization techniques , HA (High Availability) and zero downtime solutions.
• Communications expertise with 3rd parties including cloud partners, development teams and potential clients.
• Highly developed English language skills, oral and written. Bonus points for Mandarin or Bahasa speakers

Preferred Skills

• Excellent presentation, analytical and documentation skills
• Good interpersonal style, collaborative, congenial.
• Long experience in stakeholder management, risk & issue management
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Client friendly demeanor

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Certification
• Google Certified Professional - Solutions Architect Certification
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification