Solution Architects (Storage)

ROLE:
Our client, a leading storage vendor, is looking for solution architects to provide technical and business consultative leadership during the pre-sales and post-sales cycle and manage delivery projects.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

Lead the implementation of an engagement. Participate in the installation, customization, and integration of storage solutions. Maintain awareness of existing or potential customer software/hardware situations. Proactively alert project team and sales team of potential problems based upon strong working knowledge of software/hardware compatibility within the customer's environment. Actively work to educate others on potential problems and resolutions. Have the ability to perform hands-on implementation.
Support Pre-Sale Consultants and Sales in the design and development of the technical content defined in the Statement of Work. Design the storage solution, prepare technical architectural and implementation design documents, estimate the professional services effort required to implement the solution and develop the Implementation plan. Define project deliverables and schedules. Help validate and finalize the most suitable storage solution that addresses customer’s "pain points" and test its acceptance with key stakeholders. Help to identify and leverage company’s and Partner delivery resources in order to satisfy the technical needs and objectives of the implementation.
Participate, as needed, as a technical expert in the pre-sales qualification and is responsible for the delivery of the technical architectural design, strategies and plans that will be a delivered in the engagement. Develop and articulate solutions based on a customer's strategic business or technical requirements ascertained from working with multiple business units across the customer's organization.
REQUIREMENTS:

More than 7 years of experience in storage implementation
Minimum Bachelor degree in IT discipline
Over 10 years of relevant experience and 4+ years of project management experience.
Mandatory knowledge and experience in several of the following areas: Storage subsystem architecture, Storage Area Network, Network Attached Storage, Backup and Recovery Technologies, Capacity planning / application sizing, Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery, Storage Resource Management, Unix, Linux, Windows 2000/2003, Systems Administration.
Optional knowledge/experience in any of the following areas: System/process monitoring tools, Application performance tuning, TCP/IP and general networking, SNMP, System installation/configuration, Server Virtualization (VMWare), Information Security, Relational Databases, Oracle ERP, SAP, Messaging, database administration, application deployment (SAP, Oracle Financials, Microsoft Exchange, etc).
Project management skills.
Proficiency in hardware, software and/or operating systems (Unix and Windows) environments.
Project implementation experience - focusing on infrastructure deployment, business continuity/disaster recovery, data migration, etc.
Strong technical aptitude.
Excellent communication and presentation skills

Interested candidates are requested to send their resumes in MS Word format to rmalavai@premiergp.com