Cloud Solution Architect

Pure Storage ,
London, Greater London
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BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE. Since our founding in 2009, Pure Storage has empowered innovators to build a better world with data. In less than eight years, Pure reached $1B in sales, faster than nearly every enterprise company in history, and our incredible growth continues to outpace the competition. Our mission? Deliver a simple, evergreen data platform that enables everyone to turn data into intelligence and advantage. The secret sauce? More than 3,000 team members (and growing!) around the world who join forces to invent the next big thing. And then the next one. The world is experiencing a revolution driven by next-generation technology like AI, machine learning, virtual reality, quantum computing, and self-driving cars-all of which require unprecedented amounts of data. This sets the stage for Pure's technology to grow exponentially in the coming years. We've only scratched the surface of our ambitions , and as we continue to gobble up market share, we're blazing trails and setting records: * For five straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays . * Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a Satmetrix Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally . * Pure puts a premium on the future , investing 26% of revenue into R&D. If you, like us, say "bring it on" to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark. SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will utilize your strong technical competencies in the field of cloud migrations, containers, enterprise infrastructure, and solution design to provide the highest level of implementation capability and technical consultation to both customers and Pure sales teams to support sales goals. The ideal candidate will have proven experience working with customers to realize their cloud ambitions. Whether it be presenting to a prospective customer about how Pure can accelerate their cloud adoption, understanding their aspirations and capabilities, being able to position the right solutions, or detailing solutions to customers who have extensive multi-cloud capabilities already, you will be comfortable presenting on these subjects to all levels of the business. The candidate would be expected to excel in all of these areas, including guiding customers through both technical and process changes that are critical to cloud adoption success. They should be skilled in writing and discussing cloud adoption plans, designing strategies, have extensive experience with multi-cloud migrations, stateless and stateful container migrations, and to be competent to hold these types of discussion with customers and internal Pure staff. 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 present targeted solutions to our customer base. You will build replication, clustering and migration solutions for our customers and will be expected to be a member of the hands-on team delivering these services globally across the Professional Services geographies. 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 must have significant experience across different replication technologies, clustering, cloud and data migration 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. You will be responsible for creating the cloud vision for our customers, moving that vision through the design and implementation phases in order to transform their business. Our Cloud Solution Architects work with customers, sales teams, engineering and Pure partners to: * Understand prospect's technical needs related to their cloud transformation * Be comfortable running (and improving) Cloud Strategy Workshops in front of CxOs and technical staff * Provide technical consultation/education to the sales teams and keep them apprised on new cloud offerings and cloud migration solutions. * In a post-sales consultative role to support the implementation of the professional services solution that was scoped and subsequently sold. * Provide technical consultation/education to the sales teams and keep them apprised on new replication offerings and data migrations solutions. * Participate in customer evaluations and

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