Virtuozzo is expanding its Professional Services team and looking for an hands-on Professional Services - Solutions Architect.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Virtuozzo customers to understand business goals and translate them into cloud automation and orchestration solutions.
• Drive a pre-sales engagements and POCs as primary SME, to ensure the timely availability of matching solutions based on Virtuozzo products based on customer requirements.
• Administer requirements gathering and management in tight cooperation with customers, account Management and Sales Engineering.
• Perform gap analysis, clarify implementation requirements and implementation with Product Management and R&D, estimate implementation Level of Effort (LOE).
• Oversee implementation and deployment within Professional Services.
• Act as focal point/SME for customers on technical level.
• Develop, document, and implement blueprints and toolkits for modular solution and best practices.
• Define and create documents and whitepapers for Virtuozzo PS solutions and trainings.
• Collaborate with several departments and various external and internal interfaces over different time-zones and geographies.
• Educate and mentor team members on relevant technologies and architecture concepts, and actively grow PS body-of-knowledge.

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of virtualization technologies (KVM, Hyper-V, VMware).
• Excellent knowledge of common Cloud Architectures and related technologies.
• OpenStack knowledge and experience are an asset.
• Profound ability to translate business requirements into tech features and vice versa.
• Expert in the solution sales process, architecture, be able to design and blueprint technical and business process solutions.
• Proven ability to share excitement and convey technical value propositions and convince stakeholders on various levels (up to CXO).
• Ability to consult, coach and mentor others and perform effective knowledge sharing.
• Fluent English in written as well as communications.
• Customer oriented mindset, seniority, and confidence in presenting technical solutions and acting as key subject matter expert towards customers on various levels.
• Deep understanding of relevant architectures, development and deployment and configuration management methodologies and tools.
• Decent Linux knowledge and system administrative skills allowing e.g. to create scripts and perform troubleshooting are a clear asset.
• A minimum of 5 years – preferred 10 years of relevant industry experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems.
• High self-motivation and ability to work under high pressure and flexible schedule.
• Ability to travel to customer's offices by demand (~1 month / year).
• Project Management skills will be an advantage.

Location: Mexico/US

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