Technical Design Architect

Kelly Services (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Singapore

10-15 Years

 96000-150000 SGD Per Annum

Job Description

Description

As a Technical Design Architect, you will utilize your strong technical competencies to provide the highest level of implementation capability and technical consultation to both customers and the sales teams to support sales goals. You will work on cross-functional teams including Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development Managers, Services and engineering to scope and help sell Professional Services solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous solutions to customers/partners.

You will become intimately acquainted with the customer's/partner’s business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history, enabling you to build and present targeted solutions to our customer base as a member of the hands-on team delivering these services across Japan.

The role covers pre-sales and delivery functions, and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates.

You will possess a thorough understanding of IT architecture, designing solutions, networking and implementation of these solutions and you must have significant experience in the field of replication, clustering, cloud offerings as well as data migrations, technologies and solutions. You will also be experienced in delivering large scale and complex projects utilizing all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate.

Responsibilities

- Understands prospects technical needs related to a specific market or specific product (i.e. block, virtualized, file solutions, clustering, replication best practice, disaster recovery, business contingency).

- In a post-sales consultative role, supports the implementation of the professional services solution that was scoped and subsequently sold.

- Participates in customer evaluations and proof of concepts on systems to support sales efforts and address future customer needs.

- Advises and consults the sales teams on engineering developments and strategies for replication, clustering and data migrations, ensuring these solutions meet and integrate into our clients DR and BCP best practices.

- Evaluates partner proposals for migration services to ensure they deliver quality and value for money to Pure.

- Delivers technical solutions to our customers, either as a sole resource or member of a team.

- Develops scripts for both integration of storage system into a customer’s operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud and data migrations.

- Prepares and delivers technical and architecture solutions.

- Contributes significant portions for data migration solutions to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs.

- Travels to the prospective customer's domestic sites and other global sites as necessary.

Requirements

Experience with the below technologies:

- Flash Array experience / Replication technologies (Active Cluster or similar)

- Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based offerings.

- Data Center Migrations/Consolidations/Toolsets

- Networking concepts and high-level designs

- Cirrus Data Solutions Appliance (or Appliance based solutions for migrating block data)

- Virtualization Tools - Cisco/Microsoft/VMWare (Cloud solutions)

- Proven experience of scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, Powershell, Visual Basic, Python.

- Networking infrastructure (Nexus / ACI / Broadcom / Brocade)

- Security/Firewalls

- Other technical platform or infrastructure migration tools such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Datadobi, StorageX, Open Replicator.

- Data Center Migration Implementations for block and file.

- Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience.

- Windows, AIX and Linux Operating systems

- Hyper-V and VMWare ESX (vRA / SRM)

- Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based offerings.

- Disaster Recovery, Replication, Backup technologies (Zerto / Veeam / Rubrik / Veritas NBU)

- Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)

- UNIX OS, NFS file systems and UNIX distributed network environment

- Knowledge of Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking

- Specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth in data migration tool sets (specifically the Cirrus Data Appliance) and disciplines.

- Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment.

- Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.

- Creative approach to problem solving.

Job Details

Industry:

Other

Function:

IT

Roles:

Other Software/Hardware/EDP

Skills:

Aix AWS Brocade Cisco Nexus Cloud Storage Data Migration Linux Lvm Scripting Shell Scripting Vmware Vmware Esx Windows Azure Disaster Recovery Hyper-V storage architecture Unix Operating Systems