Cloud Solutions Architect (Presales)

Qode
Full-time
On-site
This is a position we're hiring on behalf of our client

Company Description

Our client is a highly skilled & multicultural team with expertise in Cloud Computing Solutions, DevOps, and Managed Services as well as proven capabilities in the execution of advanced technologies projects. They move you into the new era of Cloud, DevOps, and Automation.

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales) to join our team and help customers design and implement enterprise-grade solutions. You will work closely with sales teams, customers, and partners to address critical business challenges by architecting scalable, secure, and resilient solutions. Your expertise in cloud technologies, enterprise migrations, disaster recovery, high availability, and security will drive successful customer outcomes and support business growth.

Key Responsibilities:


Customer Engagement:
  • Collaborate with sales and technical teams to understand customer business needs, challenges, and goals.
  • Lead technical discovery sessions, workshops, and presentations to position tailored solutions.
Solution Design:
  • Design robust, scalable architectures that incorporate high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and security best practices.
  • Build solutions for application and data migration to AWS, focusing on best practices
  • Create Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and prototypes to demonstrate technical feasibility.
Technical Leadership:
  • Provide expert guidance on designing cloud environments, ensuring HA through multi-AZ and multi-region deployments, and security
  • Optimize for cost, scalability, and performance with tools like Auto Scaling, Spot Instances, and Savings Plans.
Security & Compliance:
  • Advise on network security (e.g., VPC design, NACLs, WAF), data encryption (at rest and in transit), and identity management (IAM, SSO).
  • Ensure solutions comply with customer-specific compliance and regulatory requirements.
Pre-Sales Collaboration:
  • Partner with sales to develop technical strategies for winning new business.
  • Assist in responding to RFPs, RFQs, and technical proposals by articulating the technical value proposition.
  • Work with engineering teams to define solution roadmaps and customer deliverables.
Migration Expertise:
  • Lead migration planning for enterprise workloads (e.g., databases, applications, enterprise systems like SAP, CRM, …).
  • Assess on-premises environments, perform readiness assessments, and create detailed migration blueprints.
  • Collaborate with migration teams to ensure smooth execution with minimal disruption.
Training and Enablement:
  • Conduct customer and partner training sessions to showcase best practices in cloud migration, HA/DR strategies, and security.
  • Enable internal teams on solution design principles and the value of new technologies.

Required Qualifications:

Experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Pre-Sales, or Technical Consulting.
  • Proven expertise in designing and migrating enterprise applications to AWS.
Technical Skills:
  • Expertise in AWS cloud technologies, including compute, storage, networking, and database services (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, …).
  • Proficiency in architecting HA and DR solutions using cloud-native tools and frameworks.
  • In-depth knowledge of security best practices, including IAM, data encryption, and compliance frameworks.
  • Familiarity with migration tools like AWS DMS, DRS, and database replication techniques.
Soft Skills:
  • Strong communication and presentation skills to convey technical solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to engage in complex problem-solving and decision-making in dynamic environments.
Certifications:
  • AWS Solutions Architect (Professional or Associate).
  • Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, AWS Certified Security Specialty) are a plus
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in implementing FinOps strategies for cost optimization.
  • Expertise in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Datadog).
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized applications, and CI/CD pipelines.

What we offer:

  • We provide competitive, affordable, and diverse benefit programs that support your total health – from healthy body to healthy mind.
  • Work with the latest cloud technologies, and participate in diverse international projects;
  • Dynamic work environment with helpful colleagues, working with people of many nationalities;
  • Access to a complete set of learning platforms and continuous learning opportunities (certificates, boot camps, languages, etc.);
  • Private medical insurance;
  • Lunch voucher;
  • Parking account;
  • Well-being programs participation;
  • Participate in the company’s training programs, AWS certification
  • Participate in company events, company trip;