Solution Architect

Overview

- Solution Architect

Job Title - Solution Architect

Location - Guildford office, 2000, Cathedral Square, Cathedral Hill, Guildford GU2 7YL, United Kingdom

Working Hours/Arrangements - 40 hours per week (9am to 6pm, including one hour of unpaid break); Mondays to Thursdays - office based; Fridays - Work from home. Flexible-working will be considered (2 WFH days a week) following completion of probational period.

Salary Range - £100,000 - £120,000 OTE per annum

Reporting to - Artem Dombrovskyi

We offer - See Benefits section for details.

Address: 2000, Cathedral Square, Cathedral Hill, Guildford GU2 7YL, United Kingdom.

We are an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company serving the US, Europe, and Asia, with a focus on industries such as Big Data, Adtech, Fintech, Gaming, iGaming, Blockchain and Streaming.

Note: This description reflects the role as posted; please verify current status with the employer.

Responsibilities

• Overall solution design and product selection.
• Technical discovery: work closely with the customer to gather requirements, identify opportunities and limitations.
• Support the sales team during onboarding of potential new customers.
• Deliver technical presentations, demos, and screencasts to sales teams and customers.
• Report to the product management team about improvements for the product roadmap.
• Coordinate stock availability and deployment timelines with vendors and supply chain managers.
• Learn about new products and technologies in the hosting infrastructure industry.
• Work in Guildford at least 4 days a week, and travel to customer sites and sales events as needed.

Experience / Qualifications / Skills

• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure (cloud, on-prem, hybrid).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Confident presenter with customer-facing experience.
• Knowledge of networking, security, and system architecture (VLAN, RAID, CPU and hardware design, IP networking, IP routing and BGP).
• Ability to design scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions.
• Ability to create technical documentation and architecture diagrams.
• Ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• Strong collaboration skills with sales, engineering, and product teams.
• Customer-focused mindset with a problem-solving approach.
• Ability to manage multiple opportunities in parallel.
• Fluent English speaker.

Nice-to-have requirements

• Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent experience.
• Terraform: Hands-on experience in writing IaC templates for automating resource deployments.
• Experience as a Solution Architect.
• Experience with baremetal servers hardware.
• Basic scripting.
• STEM bachelor degree.

Equal Opportunity

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