Senior Director, Solutions Architecture/Engineering
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USAFull-TimeSenior
Salary175000 - 210000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 15 - 20+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPMicrosoft AzureNetworking
Requirements
- 15 - 20+ years of technical experience – colocation/hosting/cloud companies, either operations or technical sales position preferred
- Effective solutions sales capabilities
- Advanced solution selling abilities and effective, proactive customer communications including proposal development, delivery
- Managerial/team leading experience, proven ability to mentor staff and grow internally
- Detailed knowledge of hosting technologies
- Attention to detail with excellent organizational capabilities to manage multiple concurrent projects
- Experience understanding RFP/RFI/RFQ formats and responses
- Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex project documents and interpret for all audiences
- Hands on approach and understanding of the project, customer, and internal team needs and capabilities to balance level of involvement to ensure customer and Cologix success
- Ability to combine technical elements with business needs and business requirements of clients
- Collaborative approach with internal stakeholders is critical
- Understand the impact of infrastructure technology on business challenges, processes and efficiency
- Broad knowledge of Internet technologies including servers, networking equipment and storage design solutions for colocation, hosting and cloud
- Broad knowledge of AI systems and AI system architecture
- Broad knowledge of critical facilities including an understanding of electrical / generation and mechanical systems
- Broad knowledge of data center telecom cabling standards
- CDCP / CDFOS / CNCDP or equivalent knowledge/experience (highly preferred)
- CCNA/CCNP Cloud or equivalent knowledge/experience (highly preferred)
- AWS / Google / Microsoft cloud certification knowledge/experience (highly preferred)
Responsibilities
- Lead the Solutions Architecture/Engineering (SASE) team.
- Support Cologix’ sales team in developing and closing sales.
- Provide colocation/networking expertise and pre-sales technical support for prospects, customers and partners.
- Provide technical guidance to the SASE team.
- Provide managerial oversight and promote growth within the team.
- Educate customers of all sizes on the value proposition of Cologix.
- Participate in deep technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.
- Support all of Cologix’ product lines, proficient in colocation/networking environments.
- Effectively manage a demanding schedule among a wide variety of technical and pre-sales goals.
- Act as a technical advisor/consultant for Cologix’ customers and sales team.
- Architect creative and complex co-location and IT/cloud/networking solutions.
- Articulate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other internal groups, executives and thought leaders.
- Travel approximately 30%, with primary focus on the eastern US market.
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