Senior Manager – Solutions Engineering
Cox Enterprises
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $152,600 - $229,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCitrixCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformVMware
About the role
- Recruit, lead, and coach a team of Solutions Architects focused on cloud and managed IT services solutions
- Ensure your team effectively collaborates cross-functionally with other generalist and specialist Solutions Architects to provide holistic, multi- and hybrid-cloud solutions meeting clients’ needs and business outcomes
- Build individual growth plans and guide the team in obtaining technical certifications and internal milestones aligned with RapidScale’s go-to-market strategy
- Foster a collaborative, outcome-focused team culture where architects and engineers consistently deliver compelling, business-aligned solutions
- Act as an executive sponsor in key customer engagements, providing strategic and technical oversight during discovery, design, and presentation phases
- Guide your team in tailoring cloud architectures to client outcomes, blending hosted/private cloud, public cloud, and managed services
- Drive excellence in proposal and RFP responses through technical reviews and refinement of solution strategies
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to bring field insight into future roadmap discussions, ensuring that customer voice shapes evolution
- Track and report on team KPIs such as technical win rates, certification progress, solution quality, and customer satisfaction
Requirements
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience in a related field
- The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 6 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years’ experience in a related field; or 12 years’ experience in a related field
- 3+ years in a leadership role leading pre-sales or technical solution teams
- Demonstrated success leading technical pre-sales teams and complex infrastructure architecture efforts
- Experience with client engagements across mid-market to enterprise verticals (healthcare, financial, education, etc.)
- Proven ability to engage with and influence both executive and technical stakeholders
- Deep knowledge of traditional cloud and hosted infrastructure: private cloud, networking, VMware, virtual desktop (Citrix) backup/DR, security, and server technologies
- Strong understanding of the IT ecosystem including interdependencies between applications data, digital workplace, etc.
- High-level understanding of public cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiarity with DevOps principles, automation, and CI/CD pipelines
Benefits
- The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
- seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
- additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
- Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- Retirement planning (401(k))
- Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud solutionsmanaged IT servicestechnical certificationscloud architecturesinfrastructure architectureprivate cloudpublic cloudVMwareDevOpsCI/CD
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingcollaborationstrategic oversightinfluencing stakeholdersteam culturecommunicationoutcome-focusedclient engagementproposal excellence
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePh.D.