Sr. Solutions Architect, Data Center, Cloud (Philadelphia, PA)

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
At Presidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role: Sr Solutions Architect

Presidio is seeking a Data Center focused Senior level Solutions Architect to join our team in the Philadelphia region. The Data Center Solutions Architect role will act as a strategic pre-sales engineering resource for data center and hybrid cloud solutions from market-leading manufacturers like Dell-EMC, Cisco, and VMware.

Successful candidates must be a “thought-leader” in the area of next-generation data center technologies and understand how Presidio can add value through these solutions for our clients. Candidates should have a strong, proven IT background, a passion for solving business problems with technology, and familiarity with the broad range of products and solutions.

The majority of time for this position is spent meeting with customers at their locations and working remotely, so the successful candidate will not need to report to a Presidio office. The job is focused primarily in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas. 

Travel Requirements:

 In this role you will be expected to travel up to 25%. within the region based in Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities include:

• Meet with Presidio’s customers, collecting requirements for infrastructure solutions relating to data center and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Present and explain technologies to customers, guide them through requirements gathering and formulate a solution consisting of hardware, software, licensing, and engineering services
• Create detailed solutions designs/architecture and present to customers
• Create Bill of Materials & Configurations for solutions
• Work with Account Manager/Sales Team to develop customer relationships and solutions to assist in the sales process
• Create Customer facing Presentations and perform product demonstrations
• Build Scope of Services, Task Lists and Professional Service Pricing
• Collaborate with vendor peers

Required Skills & Professional Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
• 7+ years of architecting and implementing complex Data Center solutions
• Strong Experience with Dell EMC (Servers, Storage and Data Protection), Cisco (servers & FC switching) and/or VMWare (virtualization and SDDC)
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) experience with VxRail, HyperFlex and/or Nutanix
• Proven design, sizing and implementation experience with server compute, data protection and storage solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience: 

• Presales experience 
• Data Protection experience with Veeam, Rubrik or Cohesity.
• AWS and/or Azure experience and certifications.
• Enterprise Networking knowledge and experience (Cisco/Juniper) 
• Prior experience working for a system integrator or consulting organization
• Experience migrating an on-premise to on-premise environments or on-premise to any cloud environment
• Basic knowledge of automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc)
• Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Your future at Presidio
Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and m