Solution Architect

e.biT Consulting is a boutique-style IT Staffing Company specializing in contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement opportunities. Our focus is understanding your technology, business, environment and company culture, in order to best identify the right fit between our candidates and your staffing needs.

Our firm is in search of a highly motivated and professional Solution Architect to support our growing sales organization. The Solution Architect provides technical support to the sales team and also interacts directly with customers on a regular basis. The Solution Architect helps to qualify opportunities, solves technical challenges during sales engagements, clarifies specifications and requirements, provides technical presentations, and conducts data center tours and demonstrations.

* Actively participate in the sales engagement process * Act as the technical lead on client engagements, both pre-sale and post-sale * Ensure accurate technical content of all customer sales orders and presentations * Conduct margin analysis on large and complex deals * Assist customer provisioning as needed for post-sale implementation * Maintain updated knowledge of all our firms products and services * Assist with technical responses and strategy for RFPs and other complex engagements * Provide technical write-ups for client solutions * Lead technical training for the sales team on a regular, rotating basis

**Job Requirements:** * Self-Motivation * Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills * Must work well in a team environment and get along with others * Excellent problem solving skills * Ability to focus ambiguous customer needs into specific, deliverable requirements * Ability to translate specific customer requirements into our firms products and services * Active listening and questioning techniques * Understanding of sales and order management processes * Ability to manage tight time frames and multiple simultaneous priorities * Keen focus on fast turn-around while maintaining attention to detail * Good organizational and time management skills **Technical Requirements:** * Acute familiarity with server, networking, and storage platforms * Expertise in cloud computing technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM, OpenStack, etc.) * Familiarity with Data center environments * Familiarity with backup and disaster recovery solutions (Veeam, Zerto, Commvault, etc.) * Working knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows, etc.) * Must have functional knowledge of TCP/IP networking * Must be knowledgable enough to build a commodity server from scratch **Experience And Education:** * 3-5 years in the ISP/Data center/Managed Services industry or related field providing technical sales support * Professional qualification or a degree in a technical discipline