Solution Architect - Datacentre

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Provide technical support to the sales / presales, tender and bid process as a SME across datacentre, storage, public, private and hybrid cloud

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Company: Dimension Data

Location: Sydney

Work type: Full Time

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Phone: +61-3-8916-3426

Fax: +61-7-7956-8903

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 Do you want to be the person who exceeds your potential?
 
If you have a desire to succeed and drive your own career, Dimension Data offers you the opportunity to make that happen.
 
We’re positioned to lead the change in the biggest transformation that the IT industry has seen in decades — and we need your talent, skill, and ambitious ideas. As a Global Top Employer to over 28,000 great people in more than 58 countries, you’ll be working with teams across the world. You’ll be doing great things for our clients and helping them achieve their business ambitions.
 
We are currently looking for a Solution Architect to join our NSW business and focus on being the trusted advisor to our clients and internal solutions team. As a Solution Architect you will have responsibility for solution design and business development. The DC Solutions Architect provides technical support and expertise in analysing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current data centre capabilities and ensuring technical solutions will accomplish the client's objectives

You will be required to provide high level technical architecture and expertise to support the sales, presales and the bid process

Your typical responsibilities will include:

  • Provide support to the sales, bid and account management process
  • Interact and involve vendors where required to form a solution
  • Gather customer requirements
  • Define and design scope of works
  • Provide high level architecture across "Datacentre Domains" to support responses to RFI's and RFP's
  • Engage with customers and vendors throughout the solution design phase
  • Present business and solution cases
  • Conduct workshops and meetings to discuss and explain RFP's
  • Compare and contrast solutions, options and costings across multiple vendors
  • Be the main point of contact for Datacentre related matters within the professional services division
  • Assist with technical business development in a customer facing, C-Level environment
  • Quickly align technology to meet client and business requirements
  • Create go to market products and assessment services for hybrid cloud solutions
  • Own vendor relationships

This position will require you to have a deep technical knowledge across:

  • Public (AWS), private and hybrid cloud solutions
  • Deep and broad knowledge across backup, storage, disaster recovery and virtualisation solutions
  • Automation / Orchestration

Technologies may include:

  • EMC storage products - VMAX, VNX, DataDomain, VPLEX
  • EMC backup and disaster recovers
  • NetApp storage
  • Pure
  • FCP, FCoE,iSCSI, NFS
  • VMWare ESX
  • Hyper-V
  • UCS
  • HP, DELL, IBM, Cisco Servers
  • VCE / vBLock
  • Cloud Based ERP solutions leveraging SAP HANA

We look for people with a client centric, consultative approach. You’re committed to excellence and ongoing development, and want to leverage the fantastic training opportunities that we offer. We want team players. We care about our clients, our colleagues, and the environment and we want you to do the same.

In return for your skills and your commitment to our values, you will be rewarded with a responsive and balanced workplace, unparalleled IT industry positioning, industry leading benefits, an excellent salary and bonus structure, along with a talented and focused team.

Please note: We thank you for your interest and advise that due to the tight timelines for commencement, only applicants meeting the experience requirements and holding valid Australian working rights will be contacted.

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To be considered for the role click the 'Apply' button or for more information about this and other opportunities please contact Daniel Farrell on 1800 456 122. Please quote our job reference number: 369714.

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