Pre Sales Solution Architect (Hybrid Cloud)

A global technology services and consulting firm with a well-established presence in Singapore and across Asia Pacific, are seeking a Presales Solution Architect with deep hybrid cloud expertise. Responsibilities • Lead technical and architectural discussions with enterprise customers, translating business requirements into practical hybrid cloud solutions • Design scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud architectures, including enterprise landing zones, network topology, identity and governance • Develop migration and modernisation strategies for moving on-premises workloads to public and private cloud, with clear sizing, effort estimation and pricing • Own the technical content of proposals, solution documents, statements of work and RFP responses, maximising re-use of standard offerings • Build business cases for cloud adoption, including total cost of ownership and cloud economics, and present these to senior stakeholders • Run customer workshops and technology assessments to identify consolidation and transformation opportunities • Work closely with sales and delivery teams, supporting client presentations and meetings as the solution authority • Keep current with cloud-native, container, automation and emerging technology trends and bring them into solution proposals Requirements • At least 10 years of IT experience in hybrid cloud (private and public), including 6 or more years in datacentre transformation, cloud migration and solution design • Proven presales or solutioning experience for large scale cloud transformation and infrastructure outsourcing engagements, including RFP responses • Hands on design and deployment experience across Azure and AWS, and VMware-based environments including VMware on AWS; current hyperscaler certification (AWS, Azure, GCP or Oracle) • Strong grounding in software-defined datacentre and hyper-converged platforms (for example VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN, Nutanix, Azure Stack) and virtualisation (VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack) • Knowledge of cloud networking and security (VPC, virtual networks, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, load balancing, VPN, security groups, MFA) and identity and access management including Active Directory and Entra ID • Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (for example CloudFormation, ARM or Terraform, Chef, Puppet) and familiarity with containers, microservices and modern data platforms • Ability to produce accurate solution estimates and to guide others on high-level and low-level design across Linux and Windows estates, including HA, DR and storage architectures • Good presentation and communication skills with senior stakeholders; a Bachelor's degree in engineering, with a management qualification considered advantageous Reg No R1981018 · EA Licence 14S7084