Azure Presales Consultant

As a highly qualified Cloud Presales Solutions Engineer focused on Microsoft Azure in India, your role will involve providing technical expertise in support of pre-sales activities. You will develop general knowledge across all IT areas and assist in the assessment, architectural reviews, design, demonstration, and enhancement of technology solutions as required. Key Responsibilities: - Work closely with the Sales team to provide full presales assistance in support of the successful achievement of sales targets. - Illustrate the value of the company's solution to prospects in a compelling manner. - Align the company's capabilities (products and services) with client business requirements through a professional and ethical business approach. - Assist in Proof-Of-Concept (POC) activities to support sales in closing deals. - Generate leads and opportunities in collaboration with the sales team. - Assist the Internal Development team in developing cloud Native Applications to deploy solutions using best practices. - Develop Cloud-native technical approach and proposal plans identifying the best practice solutions meeting the requirements for a successful proposal. - Create, edit, and review documents, diagrams, and other artifacts in response to RPPs RFQs. - Contribute to and participate in presentations to customers regarding proposed solutions. - Develop Public/Hybrid cloud reference architecture and Define target state cloud architecture. - Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations. - Design deployment architecture for IaaS / SaaS /PaaS that will address our clients business needs. - Experience in Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.) is good to have. - Experience with workload migration automation tools (multi-cloud). - Infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet. - Cloud native logging and monitoring stacks experience (ELK, EFK, ELE etc). - Cloud architect certified (GCP, Azure, AWS, etc.). - Familiarity with DevOps and Agile methodologies, processes, and tools. Qualifications Required: - 5+ years of experience spanning at least two cloud IT disciplines. - Experience creating, deploying, and operating large scale applications on AWS/Azure/GCP. - An advanced level Cloud Certification is an added advantage. - Understanding of microservices and serverless architecture is an added advantage. - Coding experience in one or more scripting languages like Java, Python, NodeJS, bash, etc. - Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills. - Hands-on experience of working on Cloud (AWS, Azure). - Understanding the costing of different cloud services and optimizations. - Experience with all major AWS (or) Azure services. - Conduct proof of concept (POC) and implement the design in AWS / Azure. - Azure Certifications is a must. Additional Company Details: - A strong stage presence and ability to manage client interactions, requirement gathering discussions, etc. - Ability to work independently with minimal direction providing technical and non-technical support to multiple users. - Proficient in technology consulting, training, and development. - A strong people motivator with prominent levels of energy. - Proactiveness - Be proactive in understanding the needs of our customers/clients. - Relentless learner and the passion to pick up recent technologies.,