Cox Enterprises

Senior Azure Pre-Sales Solutions Architect – East

Cox Enterprises

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $155,200 - $232,800 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Provide Pre-Sales technical support to the GTM Team to drive revenue and cloud adoption
  • Conduct full technical discovery and assessment workshops to identify pain points and gather business and technical requirements
  • Architecture client solutions to meet client requirements using a well architected framework methodology
  • Clearly communicate proposed architectures in the pre-sales cycle for early validation and verification to the internal teams responsible for implementing and providing ongoing support
  • Be a technology evangelist and educate prospects and customers on the cloud solution that makes the most sense for their business and technology requirements
  • Interface with Product Marketing and provide feedback for improving product quality and capabilities by leveraging information gathered in field engagements
  • Collaborate in the creation of technical collateral (e.g. SOWs, HLDs), and help develop sales staff by providing formal training
  • Produce cost and labor estimates and SOWs for potential projects
  • Provide thought leadership by speaking at industry events such as trade shows, panels or marketing events as well as publishing blog posts, white papers and participating in case studies

Requirements

  • A BA/BS Degree with 6+ years of experience, or a MS Degree with 4+ years of experience, or a Ph.D with one year of experience, or 10 years of overall experience without a degree
  • Professional Level Public Cloud Certification (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Relevant Industry-leading certification required: AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect - Expert)
  • Deep understanding of the following Public Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS
  • Understanding of containerization & virtualization technologies; e.g Kubernetes, Docker
  • Understanding of IAAS / PAAS / SAAS platforms; e.g. EC2, VMs, etc.
  • Understanding IaC tools; e.g. Puppet, Ansible, ARM/Bicep, Terraform
  • Understanding of different Disaster Recovery and data protection principles
  • Understanding of PCI, HIPAA, GDPR regulatory compliance frameworks
  • Understanding of Relational and Non-Relational Databases (MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, NoSQL)
  • Expertise in networking, compute, storage and OS fundamentals
  • Background and experience working in the context of a sales team
  • Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical problem-solving ability
  • Ability to speak at public events in front of large audiences is a bonus
  • Fluency in English.
Benefits
  • Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties
  • 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)

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Hard skills
Public Cloud CertificationMicrosoft AzureAWSKubernetesDockerIAASPAASSAASPuppetTerraform
Soft skills
presentation skillswritten communicationverbal communicationanalytical problem-solvingcollaborationthought leadershiptrainingcustomer educationtechnical discoveryfeedback provision
Certifications
AZ-305Professional Level Public Cloud Certification