# Cloud Solutions Architect

Job Summary The Azure Cloud Solutions Architect is a customer-facing pre-sales technical leader who identifies and qualifies Azure workload opportunities, designs differentiated NetApp and Microsoft solutions, and removes technical barriers to customer adoption. You will partner with sales, Microsoft, channel partners, Professional Services, and Customer Success teams to progress qualified opportunities toward measurable consumption and revenue outcomes. Key Responsibilities: Own technical discovery, architecture, validation planning, technical close, and the quality of customer handovers. Qualify customer opportunities, business and technical requirements, and solution fit for NetApp cloud offerings. Design end-to-end Azure solutions that may include NetApp software, cloud services, Microsoft Azure services, and Professional Services. Deliver discovery sessions, architecture workshops, technical demonstrations, immersion days, and customer or partner enablement. Design and execute proofs of concept and technical blueprints that validate solution fit in the customer environment. Act as the technical sales orchestrator, engaging specialists, Professional Services, Customer Succ

- **Id**: 4233051
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/netapp-cloud-solutions-architect-3>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Paris, France
- **Countries**: FR
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-27T19:20:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T23:27:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 17
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4214
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Enterprise Storage Systems, Digital Storage

## Company

- **Id**: 58700
- **Name**: NetApp
- **Domain**: netapp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/netapp>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 32
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.375
- **Repost share**: 0.031
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Teams** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: yes
- **FinOps** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **VMWare** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 17

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: French; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no
- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T10:52:39Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 17
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T00:02:59Z

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