Position Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience

At least 5 years experience in IT operations, services or consulting

Advanced understanding of on-prem Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure such as AzureLocal, VMware, Nutanix, OpenShift as well as file and block storage

Intermediate to advance knowledge of Public Cloud Services as well as costing models

Intermediate understanding of Data Center Operations as well as Co-Location Services

English: Fluent

French: Fluent is desired

Preferred:

At least 10 years of experience in IT operations, services or consulting

At least 3 years experience in understanding of Services business model or services leadership

Additional information requirements:

Excellent teamwork skills

Strong client-facing verbal and written communication and presentation skills

Ability to excel in a matrix organization

Strong track record of self-motivated and innovative capability in responding to changing business needs

Strong organization skills to maintain updated pipeline in Microsoft Dynamics / Sales CRM

Assignment to Markham corporate office but willingness and ability to travel up to 25%

Daily work will include

• Working directly with customers and stakeholders to gather requirements and provide services / solution recommendations
• Interaction with services and hardware/software sales team to provide services scope, sizing, and responses/proposals
• Leading solution and pricing reviews with leadership and transitioning projects from pre-sales to services delivery team

Skills needed:

• Excellent understanding of customer needs and sales stakeholders
• Hands-on experience delivering services, support, and/or demonstrations on Hybrid Cloud / AI solutions
• Knowledge of Hybrid Cloud Solution design, architecture, migration, and cost optimization for the following technologies
  • Azure, VMware, Nutanix (required)
  • OpenShift, AWS, GCP (desired)
  • Server, storage, networking, datacenter infrastructure understanding
• Enterprise Storage concepts
  • On-prem File and Block Storage (required)
  • ONTAP storage features and migration experience (desired)
  • High performance file systems and distributed storage such as WEKA, IBM Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, Lustre, VAST, DDN (desired)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience in technical solutioning and selling roles desired
• Knowledge of business models such as OPEX / CAPEX
• Knowledge on SAP HANA & HPC solutions is a plus
• Industry certifications are a plus
• AI solution scoping and understanding is desired, including
  • Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) Expertise.
  • Knowledge of Data Science and Data Engineering
  • NVIDIA Enterprise AI Software Suite
  • AI Deployment and MLOps
  • AI Problem solving & analytical capabilities (Critical Thinking)
  • Understanding of AI Security, Governance, policy