Sr Solutions Architect, Data Center (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Presidio is a leading a global digital services and solutions provider focused on Digital Infrastructure, Business Analytics, Cloud, Security & Emerging solutions.
THE ROLE: Presidio is seeking a Data Center focused Solutions Architect to join our team in the Pittsburgh 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 be “thought-leader” in the area of next-generation data center technologies 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 Pittsburgh area.
Travel Requirements: In this role you will be expected to travel up to 25%.
within the region.
It will be based in Pittsburgh, PA Key Responsibilities: Meet with Presidio’s customers, collecting requirements for infrastructure solutions relating to data center and hybrid cloud solutions.
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: 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 Additional Required Skills: 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 (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc) Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
) Education and Experience Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience 7+ years of architecting and implementing complex Data Center solutions ***** ABOUT PRESIDIO Presidio is committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the highest levels and has strengthened its drive to build and drive systemic DEI change process across all levels of the organization.
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Presidio is a global digital services and solutions provider accelerating business transformation through secured technology modernization.
Highly skilled teams of engineers and solutions architects with deep expertise across cloud, security, networking and modern data center infrastructure help customers acquire, deploy and operate technology that delivers impactful business outcomes.
Presidio is a trusted strategic advisor with a flexible full life cycle model of professional, managed, and support and staffing services to help execute, secure, operationalize and maintain technology solutions.
We serve as an extension of our clients' IT teams, providing deep expertise and letting them focus on their core business.
Presidio operates in 40+ US offices and offices in Ireland, London, Singapore, and India.
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