Technical Presales Engineer (Cloud Solutions Architect) at Equinix Nigeria

Responsibilities

• The Technical Pre sales (Cloud Solutions Architect) engineer will provide technical and business consultative.

The specific responsibilities shall include:

• Provide technical and business consultative leadership throughout the technical life cycle of cloud solutions
• Will be involved from pre-sales cloud solution formulation through system deployment; as well as bid preparation and customer interface resulting in cloud solutions architecture proposals
• Develop and articulate cloud solutions based on customers’ strategic business/technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customers’ organization
• Design cloud solutions for Managed Service customers in line with ITIL and/or industry best practice
• Drive major cloud initiatives with a focus on the bottom line impact
• Manage and develop strategic partnerships with third party suppliers and internal stakeholders for Cloud Aggregators or Managed Service Providers
• Ensure quality, up to date documentation are maintained for all cloud service arrangements
• Coordinate with the sales team in formulating and building up proposals, including making technical demos and presentations to customers

Communications and Work Relationships
The successful candidate will be required to work closely with the:

• Technical team (IP ,Operations Support, Technical Sales)
• Information Technology (IT) team
• Service Delivery team
• Sales team.

Qualifications

• BSc Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical Degree
• Proven years of experience architecting cloud solutions
• Proven years’ experience in a virtualization environment
• Certifications in Linux, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Microsoft System Centre, VMware, Storage, and other Cloud Technologies considered a plus for this position
• Experience with VMware products (vSphere, vCloud Director)
• Proven years of experience across the business development lifecycle (Business Development, Capture, Solution Architect, Pricing and Proposal Development)
• Proven years of experience in designing, architecture, and implementing enterprise applications and systems
• Proven years industry experience
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services. Certification in Azure or any formal training preferred
• Thorough understanding of Cloud Computing and Virtualization
• Demonstrable experience with infrastructure (hypervisors, networking, storage, load balancers, firewalls, monitoring etc.)
• Experience, knowledge and ability to cloud solution service offering across all three tiers:
  • Infrastructure (including outsourcing best practices, transition, and ITIL)
  • Application Development and Maintenance
  • System Integration and Management
• Experience with Microsoft public, hybrid and private cloud will be an added advantage.

Competencies Required:

• Holistic understanding of internet and hosting from the network layer up through the application layer
• Outstanding understanding of available cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability to conduct technical studies and evaluations of business requirements – and successful implementations of recommended solutions
• Familiar with application design best practices
• Experience with Security devices (Firewalls e.t.c.)
• Experience of Network configuration
• Must have strong Windows/Linux/Unix skills
• Experience in migrating applications to the Cloud environments; reviewing and evaluating potential solutions for external/internal customers
• Experience relating business requirements to system and infrastructure components and designing the bill of materials for a project
• Creative and innovative approach.
• Proactive with a positive 'can do' approach
• Sound commercial business understanding and risk awareness
• Excellent presentation and leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.