Connection

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect

Connection

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $117,692 - $153,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Drive customer initiatives on Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platforms in collaboration with customers and Connection sellers.
  • Own the overall technical cloud relationship between the customer and Connection.
  • Own the Cloud Infrastructure and Azure Applications Development technical customer engagements, including architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or pilots.
  • Understand customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding.
  • Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap.
  • Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies.
  • Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision-makers.
  • Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.
  • Respond to RFP’s and identify the best cloud platform for specific customer workloads and requirements.

Requirements

  • Five plus years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications.
  • Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts.
  • Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects.
  • Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
  • Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Database Administrators and Data Scientist).
  • Subject matter expertise in one or more related areas: Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, and Infra as a code technologies).
  • Cloud application development solutions (e.g. PaaS, Serverless, API Management); Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry); Continuous integration technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet); Web application server technologies.
  • One or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Pig/Hive.
Benefits
  • Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive.
  • We provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources.
  • Generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud infrastructure solutionsPaaSDevOpsadvanced application codingKubernetesCloud FoundryJenkinsSpinnakerAzure for DevOpsprogramming languages
Soft Skills
consultative salestechnical relationship buildingstakeholder managementcollaborative decision makingconflict resolutionverbal communicationwritten communicationpresentation skills