Sr. Solutions Architect, Data Center, Presales (Chicago)

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AtPresidio were at the forefront of a global technology revolution transforming industries throughcutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businessesand their customersto achieve more through innovation automation and intelligent insights.

The Role:
We have a great opportunity for a Sr. Solutions Architect-Datacenter that would support the Central region (IL WI and MN) The Sr Solutions Architect - Datacenter is a pre-sales resource who leads the consultative discovery of our customers business objectives and translates them into effective datacenter solutions.

As a Sr Solutions Architect your primary responsibility will be to sell and architect industry-leading compute storage virtualization and cloud solutions from our primary vendors including Dell/EMC Pure Cisco VMware Nutanix AWS and Azure. You will lead pre-sales activities including proposal development proof-of-concept construction demonstrations roadmaps and architecture design sessions. You will also author statements of work around the professional services we provide in the datacenter business.

Travel Requirements

In this role you will be expected to travel up to 25-30%. It will be based in the Chicago IL area.

Responsibilities include:

• Position yourself as a trusted advisor with our customers and partner with them to understand their requirements and business needs.
• Provide recommendations to customers for solutions and strategies.
• Partner with our vendor-partners to build trusted relationships and expertise in technology areas.
• Create functional designs and reference architectures and assist with other project deliverables.
• Design state-of-the-art technical solutions that address customer requirements for availability scalability security and performance.
• Create and deliver compelling technical artifacts directly to clients including relevant drawings and diagrams.
• Conduct customer-facing demonstrations of products/solutions to enhance the customer experience and sales success outcome.
• Collaborate with other project teams on technical solutions to help improve Presidios intellectual property.
• Stay current on all technical developments related to our datacenter business and partners.
• Interact with sales in a trusted and collaborative way to build robust solutions for our customers.
• Perform customer assessments to support design implementation and ongoing support if required.

Required Experience:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience.
• 7 years designing and implementing complex datacenter solutions.
• Presales experience is required
• 3 years of experience working with mid-market and enterprise environments across multiple verticals.
• Strong experience in Cisco UCS Dell and Pure (other storage vendors a plus)
• Basic knowledge of core networking IP subnetting routing VPN DirectConnect etc.
• Strong experience with virtualization (VMware vSphere Nutanix)
• Working knowledge of most relevant operating systems (Windows Server Red Hat Linux etc.)
• Core understanding of storage technology fundamentals including RAID snapshots deduplication compression encryption SAN/NAS NFS iSCSI etc.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations are necessary.
• Strong presentation and whiteboarding skills.
• Weekly back-office support with internal teams to refine sales motions and technical activities

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:

• Presales experience and/or experience working with a systems integrator.
• AWS and/or Azure experiencefor hybrid cloud conversations.
• Basic knowledge of automation tools (Puppet Ansible vRealize Terraform etc.)
• Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker Kubernetes etc.)
• Basic understanding of observability tools (Splunk Dynatrace etc)
• Data Protection experience with Commvault Rubrik or Cohesity.

Your future at Presidio

JoiningPresidiomeans stepping into aculture of trailblazersthinkers builders and collaboratorswho push the boundaries of whats possible. With our expertise inAI-driven analytics cloud solutions cybersecurity and next-gen infrastructure we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Hereyour impact is youre harnessing the power ofGenerative AI architecting resilientdigital ecosystems or drivingdata-driven transformation youll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate Lets redefine whats nexttogether.

About Presidio
At Presidio speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation security networking digital transformation and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps removes hurdles optimizes costs and reduces risk. Presidios expert technical team develops custom applications provides managed services enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit .

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