What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect (Remote) position at nClouds?
nClouds is a certified, award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps and Cloud professional services, products, and solutions, specializing in modern infrastructures on AWS. nClouds is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills. You will partner with customers, nClouds Sales and technical teams to craft highly scalable, flexible and resilient cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of AWS cloud services. In collaboration with sales, you will drive revenue growth across a broad set of customers. nClouds is committed to building an outstanding team. That means identifying, hiring, retaining, nurturing, and rewarding great talent that contributes to our mission and the success of our clients. nClouds is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. nClouds is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record in software/technology sales or consulting. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges as well as strong written and verbal communication skills.
Here are some other qualities we are looking for:
Enjoy working across a variety of customer market segments. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers.
Have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a system or support engineer.
Enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed as well as developing new ones, in order to make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. Regularly participate in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.
Roles and Responsibilities:
As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform that are secure, scalable, reliable, cost effective, and operationally excellent
As a key member of the business development and sales team, ensure success in positioning nClouds services in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform
Responsible for the technical sales strategy in opportunity discovery, development and close.
Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of nClouds, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the AWS cloud
Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS
Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community
Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers
Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates
Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
3 years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and cloud infrastructures
8 years within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure)
8 yrs overall experience in technology-related roles
5 years of design/implementation/consulting experience with distributed applications
5 years of experience in Cloud infrastructure architecture, database architecture, and networking
5 years of relevant experience in technology/software sales
Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
Technical degree required; Computer Science or Math background highly desired
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
Familiarity with common enterprise services (Directory Services, Information Assurance, Virtual Desktop, etc.), products (i.e., Oracle, SAP), and frameworks (ITIL, Zachman, TOGAF, etc.)
Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
Strong written communication skills
High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations
Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
Additional Information
Why nClouds? We are a diverse team of skilled and experienced professionals collaborating to solve client challenges. We have a shared set of ethos that defines nClouds, our mission, our attitude towards clients, and what it means to be a member of the team: Partnerships based on shared goals.
Challenge the status quo.
Innovation culture that delivers client value.
Employees are the foundation of our success.
nClouds is committed to building an outstanding team. That means identifying, hiring, retaining, nurturing, and rewarding great talent that contributes to our mission and the success of our clients.
nClouds is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. nClouds is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or another legally protected status.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position from home (remotely).
Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday during normal business hours, and as may be needed to complete job duties.
Travel
Some travel may be required.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Salary : $125,000 - $158,000