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The primary objective of the ISA I is to support revenue growth, profitability, technical win rate, and customer success throughout the sales cycle.\nThe Datacenter ISA I serves as a trusted advisor to customers, account executives, and internal stakeholders by designing and recommending solutions spanning rack and blade servers; compute platforms; converged and hyperconverged infrastructure; power, cooling, and physical datacenter infrastructure; hybrid cloud integration; and related professional and managed services. This role combines strong technical knowledge with business acumen to help customers modernize datacenter infrastructure, improve reliability and operational efficiency, and support future growth.\nThe ideal candidate has a solid foundation in server and datacenter infrastructure, experience working directly with customers in a presales or sales environment, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive-level audiences.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nParticipate in customer discovery sessions to identify customer business objectives, current-state infrastructure, data-growth patterns, availability requirements, recovery objectives, security considerations, and solution constraints.\nAssist with the design and recommendation of server, compute, rack infrastructure, power and cooling, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, and hybrid datacenter solutions that align with customer goals, technical standards, and budget requirements.\nPartner with sales teams and senior technical resources to support opportunities throughout the sales cycle.\nCreate and validate Bills of Materials (BoMs), technical proposals, solution diagrams, quotes, and supporting documentation for multi-vendor server, compute, converged infrastructure, and datacenter solutions.\nDevelop working knowledge of server technologies, processor and memory sizing, rack and blade systems, converged and hyperconverged infrastructure, power and cooling, and hybrid datacenter solutions.\nSupport technical presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, assessments, and architecture discussions for customers and internal stakeholders.\nReview designs, configurations, licensing, support requirements, and quotes to ensure technical accuracy and alignment with documented customer needs.\nIdentify potential lifecycle refresh, expansion, services, and adjacent-solution opportunities and bring them to the appropriate sales or technical lead.\nCollaborate with vendor partners, distributors, and internal technical resources to develop accurate customer solutions.\nMaintain current knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, competitive offerings, vendor programs, and product roadmaps.\nContribute to internal documentation, knowledge sharing, and process improvements while actively seeking coaching and feedback.\nDevelop familiarity of Zones professional and managed services portfolio and integrate relevant services into solution recommendations.\n\nEducation Requirement\n\nBA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nCertification Requirements\n\nNo major technical vendor certification is required at the time of hire.\nThe candidate is expected to work toward relevant foundational or associate-level certifications from strategic datacenter vendors as part of an agreed development plan.\nVendor sales or foundational technical accreditations from Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Nutanix, NVIDIA, Vertiv, APC, Microsoft, AWS, or other strategic vendors are preferred but not required.\nDevelop and maintain vendor competencies assigned to support team and business priorities.\n\nRequired Experience\n\nMinimum of 3+ years of experience in IT implementation, infrastructure, engineering, technical support, or 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