Pre-Sales Principal Architect

Summary

The job is for a Pre-Sales Principal Architect at Qarik, an engineer-driven IT Solutions company specializing in Google Cloud Platform. The role requires technical expertise to differentiate Qarik's services, collaborate with sales teams, and provide in-depth support to customers.

Requirements

• 15+ years of industry experience or experience working in a specialist area of technology
• Experience in advanced networking areas, including Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration, load balancing, DNS, virtual private networks, and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies
• Experience with deployment methodologies and technologies (e.g., CI/CD, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms and technical concepts such as Big Data, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, and related industry topics
• Ability and interest to quickly learn, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Sales teams as the subject matter expert to differentiate Qarik’s services to our customers
• Help prospective customers and partners understand the power of our consultants, explaining technical features, helping customers design architectures, and problem-solving any potential roadblocks
• Work with the team to identify and qualify business opportunities, understand fundamental customer technical objections, and develop a strategy to resolve technical blockers
• Provide in-depth expertise to support technical relationships with customers, including product and solution briefings and proof-of-concept work
• Work directly with customers to demonstrate and prototype services in customer/partner environments
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution successfully
• Design end-to-end engagements for our consultants to help our clients achieve their goals on time, providing value to the customer that lasts beyond the engagement

Benefits

• Qarik offers a competitive employee compensation and outstanding benefits package
• The job is fully remote with work hours and vacation flexibility for work/life balance
• You will work on a team where people respect each other, have a shared goal of customer success, and work together instead of competing against each other or counting the lines of code or number of PRs to meet personal annual OKRs
• Qarik is using the latest AI tech and pushing the boundaries possible, constantly learning new stuff and creating new cool things together