Solutions Architect Presales (GCP)

Youll engage with partners and end customers at various levels from decision-makers to technical teams ensuring they understand the value of Googles cloud solutions. By aligning their needs with our solutions youll drive the transition from traditional models to cloud-managed services driving to multi-year subscription buy-ins. By sharing best practices and insights youll contribute to the continuous improvement of our services.

Your contributions will be instrumental in the successful materialization of the sales opportunities upselling thereby contributing to the revenue.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in pre-sales activities including solutioning cost estimation proposal presentations and partner enablement sessions.

• Should be able to work independently on the Presales RFP/RFI to build solution proposals.

• Drive modernization initiatives leveraging a broad range of GCP services to improve performance and efficiency (conduct in-depth application and infrastructure assessments and define modernization and migration paths).

• Architect solutions on GCP based cloud infrastructure modernization of legacy applications to cloud-native architectures.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to articulate solution concepts and influence teams.

• Mentor partner engineering team and enforce best practices.

• Working closely with the sales team to qualify leads present the solution effectively answer technical questions accompany the sales team to customer/partner locations across India (need basis) for partner/customer meetings and represent Ingram Micro at various events/workshops.

Skills:

• Strong working experience in Presales with a focus on Googles GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

• Compute: Compute Engine GKE Cloud Run App Engine Cloud Functions

• Networking: VPC Cloud Load Balancing Cloud CDN Cloud Interconnect Cloud Armor.

• Database & Storage: AlloyDB Cloud SQL Spanner for relational workloads. Firestore Bigtable for NoSQL applications

• Security & IAM: Organization policies IAM Secret Manager Certificate Manager Security Command Center

• Operations: Cloud Monitoring Cloud Logging Error Reporting Cloud Trace.

Technical Skills:

• Proven experience with Google infra GKE Terraform Observability CI/CD Databases and modernization projects.

• Strong expertise in Google Cloud Infrastructure and product solutions and services.

• Hands-on experience with GKE Terraform and CI/CD tools.

• Demonstrated success in legacy system migration and cloud modernization (VMs Workload & Database modernization (SQL Server to PostgreSQL/AlloyDB).

• Knowledge of observability frameworks (e.g. Prometheus and Grafana).

• Good understanding of networking security and cloud-native architectures

• Strong expertise Knowledge of security best practices in cloud and distributed systems.

• Multi-cloud architectures with Cross-Cloud Interconnect

• Exposure to Generative AI and agentic frameworks.

• Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency in English (written and spoken).

Required:

Minimum 4 to 5 years focused on Googles cloud/hybrid cloud infrastructure modernization or managed services.

Certifications:

• Required: Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

• Optional: Google Cloud Certified

• Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

• Professional Cloud Database Engineer

• Professional Cloud Network Engineer

• Associate Google Workspace Administrator

• Education: Degree or higher in Computer Science