Getronics - Solution Architect - Cloud Technologies (15-16 yrs)

Role : Cloud Pre-Sales Solution Architect

An exciting opportunity to join our team within a growing ICT Services company with a global portfolio, as an Kubernetes Solution Architect

Team Purpose :

This is a prestigious position in the Cloud organisation within Getronics. The business unit is responsible to maintain and provide excellent cloud services to customers. The cloud organisation works on bid management, pre-sales, solution & service architecting to support the execution of complex solution sales.

Role Purpose :

The Cloud Pre-Sales Solution Architect is a senior person responsible to own end to end technical discussions with Customers. Responsible for ensuring the best architecture and solution is provided to the customer on behalf of Getronics. Responsible to build latest technology presentations and solutions within the Public Cloud services.

Responsibilities/Accountabilities :

- Work with Cloud Practice office to provide technical solutions/services roadmap

- Drive technical discussions across Advisory, Migration and Operations lifecycle and explain Getronics solutions and product options to meet customer needs

- Drive thought leadership and support evangelization activities working with Sales

- Prepare technical Cloud proposals and work on sizing and estimation

- Collaborate with sales and Assist in assessing unique customer service and/or cloud needs and developing solutions that meet client needs

- Bring an innovative thought process for service offerings across the Cloud lifecycle Advisory, Migration and Operations

- Implement scalable, high performance solutions that meet the need of todays corporate and digital applications using public cloud technologies

- Plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to drive nextgeneration business outcomes

- Produce clear and concise documentation, including requirements documents, design specs, status reports, system documentation and emails

- Drive business innovations through systems on Cloud

- Creating Point of View of Cloud Solution

Required Technical Skills and Experience :

- Must have 7+ years of working experience as Solutions Architect

- Overall experience of at least 7 years in various technical roles with emphasis on Cloud Native technologies

- Must have a track record in developing successful cloud propositions for customers

- Should have a very good understanding of Cloud Native services

- Proven ability to construct and deliver compelling presentations and propositions to C-level and large audiences

- Extensive, broad-based expertise across large scale Cloud design/deploy/migrate engagements

- Broad understanding of typical enterprise applications, IT infrastructures, public and on-premises cloud, including but not limited to Azure

- Must have experience of incorporating well-architecture framework in cloud solutions

- Ability to provide holistic and right scale cloud solutions that address scalability, availability, service continuity (DR), performance and security requirements

- Expertise to PaaS technologies Containers -Docker, Kubernetes

- Should have experience in costing models of different cloud services

- Should have experience with major AWS, GCP (and/or) Azure services.

- Should have experience with CI-CD tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Bamboo

- Understanding of DevOps principles is an added advantage

Professional Skills :

- Ability to wear multiple hats in the various phase of customer lifecycle is very critical Pre-sales to Operations phase

- Strong listening and question- based solution designing skills.

- Ability to uncover business challenges and develop a custom solution to solve those challenges

- Ability to secure trust and influence with customers and internal stakeholders.

- Ability to form and communicate ideas for wide audiences, both Getronics and external client stakeholders. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral are required

- Ability to manage various stakeholders Sales, Marketing, Architecture, Engineering, Security, Operations and executives

- Demonstrated commitment to the continuous personal improvement of business and technical skills, including the ability to learn and apply new technologies and techniques

- Strong service attitude, team worker and a commitment to quality

- Flexible, continuous learner and knowledge sharer, enthusiastic, personable selfstarter, work well in a

team environment, appreciate challenge, comfortable and effective working in new areas that require experimentation and rapid problem solving

- Proven track of creating business value with technical expertise and solutions

- Proven ability to provide consulting and solution for large scale cloud migration, transformation, and cloud-native development on Azure, AWS, GCP platform

- Should have holistic experience and view on Cloud Management and Governance

Certifications :

- Atleast one Public cloud certification each in Azure and AWS

- ITIL and or Agile methodologies

Educational Qualification :

- Bachelor Degree from a reputed institute