Job Title: Solution Architect
Working Hours/Arrangements: 40 hours per week (9am to 6pm, including one hour of unpaid break), Mondays to Thursdays – office based; Fridays – Work from home. 2 days work from home will be considered following completion of probational period.
Salary Range: £90,000 - £100,000 per annum
Additional compensation: 10-20% discretionary performance related commission
Location: Guildford office – 11 The Pines Trading Estate, Broad Street, Guildford GU3 3BH
Reporting to: Artem Dombrovskyi, Solution Architect Team Leader.
The company
Servers.com is an Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) company. We offer a full suite of computing, storage, and networking services across the US, Europe, and Asia.
We are working with leading enterprises and up-and-coming firms in some of the most crucial and fastest-growing industries in the world, including Big Data, Adtech, Fintech, Gaming, iGaming, and Streaming.
We were founded in 2014 by a group of hosting industry veterans. Servers.com is headquartered in Cyprus, EU. Servers.com provides access to premium server hosting solutions in over 18 datacentres globally.
Job brief
We are looking for a Solution Architect (AWS professional) to join our Solution Architect team at Servers.com to work with our present and future customers from the different industries: gaming, finance, ad-tech, etc. You will understand their challenges, assist them with the infrastructure design and help the customers progress into the hybrid cloud and bare metal cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
* Overall solution design and product selection;
* Technical discovery: working closely with the customer, arranging the requirements, figuring out the opportunities and the limitations;
* Supporting the sales team during onboarding of potential new customers;
* Technical presentations, demos, screencasts to sales and customers;
* Reporting to the product management team about what improvements should be made to our product roadmap;
* Managing stock availability and deployment timelines together with the vendors and the supply chain managers;
* Learning about new products and technologies in the hosting infrastructure industry;
* Working in Guildford at least 4 days a week, as well as during business trips to customer sites and sales events.
Experience/qualifications/skills
* In-depth experience in the following AWS technologies and services: solid skills of AWS architecture, working with AWS EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, RDS, EKS, Direct Connect with 3 or more years of involvement in different IT and tech activities, and a broad knowledge of hosting technologies;
* Routing in AWS: Proficient in configuring and managing routing within AWS, including private and public route tables, peering connections, and transit gateways;
* Aware of common technologies: VLAN, RAID, CPU and hardware design, IP networking, IP routing and BGP;
* Soft Skills: strong problem-solving and analytical skills, ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, effective communication skills to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders;
* Available to occasional work overtime with customers from the U.S. and APAC;
* A fluent English speaker.
Nice-to-have requirements:
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent;
* Terraform: Hands-on experience in writing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates for automating resource deployments;
* Already working as a Solution Architect;
* Experience with BareMetal servers hardware;
* Experience in system administration;
* Basic scripting;
* STEM bachelor degree.
Location
You will need to be able to get to our Guildford-based office 4 days per week.
Address: 11 The Pines Trading Estate, Broad Street, Guildford GU3 3BH.
Working Hours/Arrangements
40 hours per week (9am to 6pm, including one hour of unpaid break), Mondays to Thursdays – office based; Fridays – Work from home.
Flexible-working will be considered (2 WFH days a week) following completion of probational period.
We offer:
1. Salary range: £90,000 - £100,000 per annum.
2. Additional compensation: 10-20% discretionary performance related commission.
3. Private healthcare – Once probation period is passed (subject to BiK taxation).
4. Embrace parenthood with 18 weeks generous paid leave after completion of 1.5 years ‘continuous service’.
5. Pension contribution – 5% of the salary.
6. 28 annual leave days plus all Bank Holidays in each holiday year in England and Wales.
7. 10 days working from anywhere in the world following completion of probationary period.
8. Office Lunches – Deliveroo to the value of £14 each day.
9. Mobile phone bill paid to the value of £80 (subject to BiK taxation).Casual dress code.
10. Use of Apple MacBook Pro laptop – Mouse and Keyboard.
11. AirPods Headset.
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