Cloud Solution Architect at Quanteq Technology Services Limited

Quanteq Technology Services Limited was founded in El Segundo, California in 1998 as a full service Management, Systems and Technology Consulting firm to serve the needs of public and private sector organizations. We help solve performance problems of organizations using Information Communication Technology through the provision of IT advisory services, Business and Systems Integration, Project Management and Training/IT support services.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Abuja

Job Description

• As a Technical Solution Architect (TSA), your primary responsibility with be to move customer workloads to Microsoft Azure.
• The TSA is a technical customer facing role that will be accountable for the end-to-end customer cloud deployment experience.
• You will own the Azure technical customer engagement including specific implementation projects and/or Proofs of Concept (POCs).
• The ideal candidate should have experience in customer facing roles and had success leading technical and economic value discussions with senior customer executives that drive key decisions and implementation.
• The success of this role depends on collaboration with generalists and specialists in the business engagement and delivery teams.

In this role, you would be responsible for:

• Interfacing with both the generalists and specialists in the QES sales and delivery teams (including partners, services, and sales team) focused on consumption of the Azure platform in high potential accounts
• Executing quick technical feasibility and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Azure (i.e. quick and dirty, comfortable with 80-20 rule)
• Building a technical and security architecture in Azure for the selected apps/workloads
• Lead compliance assessments with the customer on designed Azure architecture
• Selecting a migration approach to lift and shift the workloads to Azure or architecting a greenfield development and/or production platform for new applications
• Executing limited POCs, if necessary
• Driving the quality of the onboarding plan (with QES team and/or partners)
• Reporting to customer as business objectives / business value conditions are met
• Ensuring plan execution and Azure consumption targets are met
• Documenting and sharing technical best practices / insights with engineering and the architect community

Qualifications

• MCSE Server Administration, MCSA, MCTS, University Degree in Computer Science or Math background highly desired, HND
• Years of experience: 1-2years

Key Qualifications:

• Understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through
• Problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, where and when needed, to do what’s right for the customer and for the organization (i.e. think through workarounds, evaluate risk of various deployment options, etc.)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication
• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value
• Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer facing situations

Requirements:

• 2+ years of management and success in consultative / complex sales processes (where necessary, managing various stakeholders (Primary: Technical Decision Makers, Secondary: Business Decision Makers) relationships to get consensus on solution / projects
• 2+ year’s design and/or implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.)
• 1+ years’ experience in migrating on premise workloads to the cloud
• Technical prowess and passion, especially for Windows Azure,
• Modern Application design practices and principles.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences

Capability knowledge:

• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure components:
• Software design or development
• Systems Operations / Management
• Database architecture
• Virtualization
• IP Networking
• Storage
• IT Security

Competencies:

• Communication, project planning, Network management, Systems Management

Salary Range
60-100k

Application Closing Date
13th March, 2015

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application and CV's to: [email protected] using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Applicants that resides in Abuja are expected to apply or those that can relocate at a short notice without requesting for relocation allowance.