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We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.\nThe Role\nArchitect - Datacenter is a pre-sales resource who leads the consultative discovery of our customers' business objectives and translates them into effective datacenter solutions.\nAs a Sr Solutions Architect, your primary responsibility will be to sell and architect industry-leading compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud solutions from our primary vendors, including Dell/EMC, Pure, Cisco, VMware, Nutanix, AWS, and Azure. You will lead pre-sales activities, including proposal development, proof-of-concept construction, demonstrations, roadmaps, and architecture design sessions. You will also author statements of work around the professional services we provide in the datacenter business.\nTravel Requirements\nIn this role you will be expected to travel up to 25%. It will be based in Detroit or Grand Rapids, MI.\nJob Responsibilities:\nPosition yourself as a trusted advisor with our customers, and partner with them to understand their requirements and business needs.\nProvide recommendations to customers for solutions and strategies.\nPartner with our vendor-partners to build trusted relationships and expertise in technology areas.\nCreate functional designs and reference architectures, and assist with other project deliverables.\nDesign state-of-the-art technical solutions that address customer requirements for availability, scalability, security, and performance.\nCreate and deliver compelling technical artifacts directly to clients, including relevant drawings and diagrams.\nConduct customer-facing demonstrations of products/solutions to enhance the customer experience and sales success outcome.\nCollaborate with other project teams on technical solutions to help improve Presidio’s intellectual property.\nStay current on all technical developments related to our datacenter business and partners.\nInteract with sales in a trusted and collaborative way to build robust solutions for our customers.\nPerform customer assessments to support design, implementation, and ongoing support if required.\nRequired Skills:\nStrong experience in Cisco UCS, Dell, and Pure (other storage vendors a plus)\nBasic knowledge of core networking, IP, subnetting, routing, VPN, DirectConnect, etc.\nStrong experience with virtualization (VMware vSphere, Nutanix)\nWorking knowledge of most relevant operating systems (Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, etc.)\nCore understanding of storage technology fundamentals, including RAID, snapshots, deduplication, compression, encryption, SAN/NAS, NFS, iSCSI, etc.\nStrong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations are necessary.\nStrong presentation and whiteboarding skills.\nWeekly back-office support with internal teams to refine sales motions and technical activities.\nAdditional Desired Skills:\nPresales experience and/or experience working with a systems integrator.\nAWS and/or Azure experience for hybrid cloud conversations.\nBasic knowledge of automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, vRealize, Terraform, etc.)\nBasic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) \nBasic understanding of observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, etc) \nData Protection experience with Commvault, Rubrik, or Cohesity.\nEducation and Experience:\nBachelor's degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience.\n7+ years designing and implementing complex datacenter solutions.\n3+ years of experience working with mid-market and enterprise environments across multiple verticals.\nYour future at Presidio\n Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.\nHere, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.\nReady to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.\nAbout Presidio\n Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.\nAt Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit https://presidio.com\nApplications will be accepted on a rolling basis.\nPresidio has a strong commitment to the community we serve and our employees. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strive to have a workforce that includes the community we serve.\nPresidio is an Equal Opportunity Employer Disability/Vets. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.\nThe \"Know Your Rights\" Poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster\nPresidio EEO Policy Statement is available here: https://www.presidio.com/careers\nPresidio is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to  and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.\nPresidio is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor requesting priority referrals of protected veterans for its openings. State Employment Services, please provide priority referrals to.\nNotice of Massachusetts Candidates: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.\n Recruitment Agencies, Please Note: Presidio does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Do not forward resumes/CVs to our career's email address, Presidio employees or any other means. 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