Pre Sales Solution Architect (Hybrid Cloud)

A global technology services and consulting firm with a well-established presence in Singapore and across Asia Pacific, are seeking a Presales Solution Architect with deep hybrid cloud expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical and architectural discussions with enterprise customers, translating business requirements into practical hybrid cloud solutions

• Design scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud architectures, including enterprise landing zones, network topology, identity and governance

• Develop migration and modernisation strategies for moving on-premises workloads to public and private cloud, with clear sizing, effort estimation and pricing

• Own the technical content of proposals, solution documents, statements of work and RFP responses, maximising re-use of standard offerings

• Build business cases for cloud adoption, including total cost of ownership and cloud economics, and present these to senior stakeholders

• Run customer workshops and technology assessments to identify consolidation and transformation opportunities

• Work closely with sales and delivery teams, supporting client presentations and meetings as the solution authority

• Keep current with cloud-native, container, automation and emerging technology trends and bring them into solution proposals

Requirements

• At least 10 years of IT experience in hybrid cloud (private and public), including 6 or more years in datacentre transformation, cloud migration and solution design

• Proven presales or solutioning experience for large scale cloud transformation and infrastructure outsourcing engagements, including RFP responses

• Hands on design and deployment experience across Azure and AWS, and VMware-based environments including VMware on AWS; current hyperscaler certification (AWS, Azure, GCP or Oracle)

• Strong grounding in software-defined datacentre and hyper-converged platforms (for example VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, Nutanix, Azure Stack) and virtualisation (VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack)

• Knowledge of cloud networking and security (VPC, virtual networks, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, load balancing, VPN, security groups, MFA) and identity and access management including Active Directory and Entra ID

• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (for example CloudFormation, ARM or Terraform, Chef, Puppet) and familiarity with containers, microservices and modern data platforms

• Ability to produce accurate solution estimates and to guide others on high-level and low-level design across Linux and Windows estates, including HA, DR and storage architectures

• Good presentation and communication skills with senior stakeholders; a Bachelor's degree in engineering, with a management qualification considered advantageous

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