DATACENTER SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT Job
Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: REDMOND, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time
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<td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Job Category:Services & Consulting<BR>Location:, , US<BR>Job ID:804959-89671<BR>Division:Services & Support<BR><BR><BR>Are you excited about an opportunity to be part of the team at the leading edge of driving Microsoft''s Private Cloud story globally? Are you a strong Senior Consultant or Architect with the ability to sell value and who has infrastructure, systems management, or infrastructure development experience, with a passion for delighting customers and partners and a strong desire to win market share? If so, the Microsoft Enterprise Services Worldwide Datacenter Center of Excellence team is the right place for you!<BR><BR>The Center of Excellence groups are part of Microsoft Enterprise Services HQ and are responsible for developing highly skilled global teams that assist the Microsoft field, business groups and product groups, and partners in the early wins and adoption/implementation of strategic Microsoft growth technologies in the enterprise space. The Datacenter CoE plays a critical role in helping to drive the company''s Private Cloud agenda by accelerating sales, adoption and deployment of datacenter solutions. These solutions are based on Microsoft System Center, Windows Server and Virtualization technologies and delivered globally by leveraging a centrally managed, highly skilled agile pool of resources with deep subject matter expertise.<BR><BR>The Datacenter CoE is a key enabler for Microsoft field and partner staff. They lead and assist with the presales, design and delivery of the largest, most complex, and most strategic projects for enterprise customers across the globe. The CoE aligns very closely with the Datacenter Consulting Service Line team in order to drive the overall datacenter plan for Microsoft Enterprise Services.<BR><BR>Qualifications<BR>This role requires Architects and Senior Consultants who have a mix of advanced Microsoft technology and strategic business acumen, who can engage with Fortune 500 customers at multiple levels.<BR>Proven experience of driving complex solution presales, in a matrix environment, leading to successful opportunity closure is a must. Demonstrated ability to engage in senior level business and technology decision maker discussions related to business value, datacenter architecture, design and operations is a core requirement. The role requires both broad and deep technology knowledge and the ability to architect solutions by mapping common customer business problems to end-to-end technology solutions. Technical qualifications include hands-on experience in several of the following: 3rd party virtualization, storage, networking, systems management, datacenter operations and processes, support engineering, disaster recovery and business continuance, application architecture and design, Windows platform design and implementation, and System Center management.<BR><BR>The successful candidate will apply advanced analysis skills and experience in principles of solution design and deployment to define appropriate customer solutions. To b </font></td>
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