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

Presidio Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
At Presidio were at the forefront of a global technology revolution transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation automation and intelligent insights.

The Role: Sr Solutions Architect

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 bea thought-leader in the area ofnext-generation data centertechnologies 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.

Travel Requirements:

In this role you will be expected to travel up to 25%. within the region based in Philadelphia PA

Responsibilities include:

• Meet with Presidios customers collecting requirements for infrastructure solutions relating todata centerand hybridcloudsolutions.
• 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

Required Skills & Professional Experience:

• Bachelors 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

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:

• 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.)

Your future at Presidio
JoiningPresidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers builders and collaborators - who push the boundaries of whats possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics cloud solutions cybersecurity and next-gen infrastructure we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here your impact is real. Whether youre harnessing the power of Generative AI architecting resilient digital ecosystems or driving data-driven transformation youll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate Lets redefine whats next-together.

AboutPresidio
Presidiois committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women people of color people with disabilities and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

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 and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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