Cloud Pre-Sales Engineer/Cloud Solutions Architect - (New York, NY)

Cloud Pre-Sales Engineer/Cloud Solutions Architect Our client, a very well known and highly profitable software company, is hiring system architects with significant public cloud background to join their sales organization. The role involves working with clients to help them understand and successfully adopt a large variety of on-premise and PaaS/IaaS offerings. You will work either with internal sales staff on enterprise accounts, or with channel partners on mid-sized accounts. If you have ability with large database systems, especially ones deployed in the cloud, it is a big plus. Ability in cloud security will also give you an edge. You'll need really strong grasp on the complexities of cloud-based architectures, with background leading the technical design of systems that are deployed on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or IBM Softlayer/Bluemix. As this is an external-facing role, you will also need extremely effective communication abilities.