Senior Solutions Architect

Company Overview:

Cloud4C, named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services is the world's leading automation-driven, application-focused Cloud Managed Services Provider (MSP).
As one of the global leaders in multi-cloud migration and managed services, we support native and hybrid cloud environments with multi-availability zones, offering four-way disaster recovery architecture at zero data loss guarantee, military-grade security under a single SLA.
Whatever cloud solution an enterprise is looking for, we can deploy it in their existing operational landscape – and transform the way they work.
Cloud4C's managed service processes adhere to best industry standards such as ITIL and COBIT using our proprietary Self-Healing Operations Platform (SHOP), an automation platform driving industry-leading services delivered through multiple products, garnering the best NPS scores from clients.
We command presence across 25 countries in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and APAC and serve 4000+ global enterprises.
These enterprises include 60 Fortune 500 companies and 80+ enterprises with over $1Bn revenue.
Cloud4C is a pioneer in offering advanced IT evolution solutions with a Collaborative Integration delivery Model - A perfect collaborative alliance of people, systems, business structures, and practices customized to optimize results, increase value delivered to you, reduce waste, and maximize efficiency through all phases of plan, design, development, and management.
We engage through an award-winning Hybrid Managed Services approach that pools in resources on-demand from 25 Centers of Excellence based on a firm's needs and objectives, walking all the way through from transformation strategy blueprinting, deployment, management, support, and end business outcome delivery.
As certified Azure, GCP, AWS, and Oracle Cloud partners, Cloud4C promises seamless, cost-effective digital transformation on public/private/hybrid/multi-cloud set-ups

Job Responsibilities:

Responsible for gathering/capturing Business requirements from Customer by coordinating with Customer and Sales Team
Understanding customers AS-IS and TO-BE Infrastructure/Application/Security requirements on Cloud
Work on RFP/RFI to capture business requirements and prepare for Technical Response
Responsible for creating Optimized Solutions (Sizing, Architecture options, BoM etc.) on Public Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) based on customer requirements
Customer Presentations/White boarding of Cloud4C capabilities and Solution prepared with ability to explain benefits of TO-BE model
Responsible for delivering the Organization capability presentations, handling Solution defense and maintaining the P&L.
Creation of Cloud Migration Plan including Cost estimates
Participation in public events and writing Technical whitepapers/Articles/Blogs
Help Delivery teams in knowledge transition after Sales

Job

Prerequisites:
Prior experience on Azure, AWS or GCP public cloud is mandatory (At least one of them).
We are looking for candidates having 3-10 years of IT/Datacenter experience with minimum 2+ years on cloud Infrastructure/Application as SME/Architect on one of the public cloud.
Preferably certified on one of the Cloud Technology (Expert/Associate level)
Experience/Understanding of architecting complex Enterprise grade solutions in on-premise and cloud environments.

Experience of creating solutions either on Cloud infra IaaS (VM, Storage, Networking, SAP on Cloud etc.) or in Cloud Apps (PaaS, Serverless, Container, CI/CD)
Firm grasp on cloud security, leveraging Windows/Linux operating systems, Active Directory, AD integration.
Well versed in designing and building solutions that include high availability, Disaster Recovery architectures.
Familiarity with Cloud Automation Tools (Terraform, ANSIBLE, ARM Templates)
Client-focused with the ability to influence others to achieve results.
Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on cloud that address customer's requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments.
Collaborate with other project teams on technical solutions and help improve service.
Ability to learn and work with new and emerging technologies (AI/ML/IoT etc.)
Open for local/global travel (30-40%) to client/partner/Event offices/locations as per business requirements.