Technical Design Architect

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

1. Understand 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).
2. In a post-sales consultative role, support the implementation of the professional services solution that was scoped and subsequently sold.
3. Participate in customer evaluations and proof of concepts on systems to support sales efforts and address future customer needs.
4. Advise and consult 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.
5. Evaluate partner proposals for migration services to ensure they deliver quality and value for money to Pure.
6. Deliver technical solutions to our customers, either as a sole resource or member of a team.
7. Develop scripts for both integration of storage systems into a customer’s operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud, and data migrations.
8. Prepare and deliver technical and architecture solutions.
9. Contribute significant portions for data migration solutions to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
10. Travel to the prospective customer's domestic sites and other global sites as necessary.

Requirements

Experience with the below technologies:

1. Flash Array experience / Replication technologies (Active Cluster or similar)
2. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud-based offerings.
3. Data Center Migrations/Consolidations/Toolsets
4. Networking concepts and high-level designs
5. Cirrus Data Solutions Appliance (or Appliance-based solutions for migrating block data)
6. Virtualization Tools - Cisco/Microsoft/VMWare (Cloud solutions)
7. Proven experience of scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, Powershell, Visual Basic, Python.
8. Networking infrastructure (Nexus / ACI / Broadcom / Brocade)
9. Security/Firewalls
10. Other technical platform or infrastructure migration tools such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Datadobi, StorageX, Open Replicator.
11. Data Center Migration Implementations for block and file.
12. Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience.
13. Windows, AIX, and Linux Operating systems
14. Hyper-V and VMWare ESX (vRA / SRM)
15. Disaster Recovery, Replication, Backup technologies (Zerto / Veeam / Rubrik / Veritas NBU)
16. Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
17. UNIX OS, NFS file systems, and UNIX distributed network environment
18. Knowledge of Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
19. Specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth in data migration tool sets (specifically the Cirrus Data Appliance) and disciplines.
20. Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer-facing environment.
21. Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.
22. 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