Solution Architect Infrastructure Modernization Specialist - Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience planning infrastructure modernization as a technical consultant, technical pre-sales engineer, or enterprise architect.

- Experience in one of the following: cloud migration, datacenter migration, disaster recovery, virtualization, application/servers assessment and discovery.

- Experience leading IT strategy discussion and design cloud adoption plans.

Preferred qualifications:

- Master's degree in Computer Science or other technical field.

- Experience as an IT infrastructure consultant or enterprise architect working in datacenter investment strategies and proposals.

- Experience in networking (i.e., Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, virtual private networks) and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.

- Experience with deployment methodologies and technologies (e.g., CI/CD, Chef, Puppet, Ansible).

- Experience with Windows, Linux system administration, and/or Enterprise applications.

- Knowledge for VMware technology stack (e.g., vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, vSAN etc.) or Microsoft technology stack (e.g., Active Directory, Windows Server, etc.).

Responsibilities

- Challenge and inspire customers and peers to solve difficult problems with ambitious and novel solutions, leveraging a sophisticated set of technical competences.

- Manage the Go-to-Market strategy from technical perspective. Craft the strategy to transform the customers, identify key customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers.

- Work hands-on with customers to demonstrate and prototype Google Cloud product integrations in customer/partner environments. Help the Account team to close agreements from technical perspective.

- Recommend migration strategies, enterprise architectures, migration tools, and cloud infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Google Cloud. Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.