Posted 12 days ago
Sr. Solutions Architect (Data Center)
@ Presidio
Grand Rapids, Manitoba
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Overview
Presidio is hiring a Senior Solutions Architect for its datacenter business in Detroit or Grand Rapids, Michigan, with up to 25% travel. The role is a pre-sales position that consults with customers to design compute, storage, virtualization and cloud solutions and writes statements of work for professional services.
Responsibilities:
- Lead consultative discovery of customer datacenter requirements
- Design compute, storage, virtualization and cloud solutions
- Lead pre-sales activities, proofs of concept and demonstrations
- Author statements of work for professional services
Requirements summary:
- 7+ years designing complex datacenter solutions
- 3+ years with mid-market and enterprise environments
- Strong Cisco UCS, Dell and Pure experience
- Strong VMware vSphere or Nutanix experience
- Strong communication and whiteboarding skills
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-01
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Sales |
| Experience | 7+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: moderate · ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Encouraged to apply | People with disabilities, Veterans, Women, Racialized people |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
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Presidio
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 2 |
Job description
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 - Datacenter is a pre-sales resource who leads the consultative discovery of our customers' business objectives and translates them into effective datacenter solutions.
As a Sr Solutions Architect, your primary responsibility will be to sell and architect industry-leading compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud solutions from our primary vendors, including Dell/EMC, Pure, Cisco, VMware, Nutanix, AWS, and Azure. You will lead pre-sales activities, including proposal development, proof-of-concept construction, demonstrations, roadmaps, and architecture design sessions. You will also author statements of work around the professional services we provide in the datacenter business.
Travel Requirements
In this role you will be expected to travel up to 25%. It will be based in Detroit or Grand Rapids, MI.
Job Responsibilities
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 marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.
At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit https://presidio.com
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Presidio has a strong commitment to the community we serve and our employees. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strive to have a workforce that includes the community we serve.
Presidio is an Equal Opportunity Employer Disability/Vets. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
The "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster
Presidio EEO Policy Statement is available here: https://www.presidio.com/careers
Presidio is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Presidio is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor requesting priority referrals of protected veterans for its openings. State Employment Services, please provide priority referrals to.
Notice of Massachusetts Candidates: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Recruitment Agencies, Please Note: Presidio does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Do not forward resumes/CVs to our career's email address, Presidio employees or any other means. Presidio is not responsible for any feeds related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.
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 - Datacenter is a pre-sales resource who leads the consultative discovery of our customers' business objectives and translates them into effective datacenter solutions.
As a Sr Solutions Architect, your primary responsibility will be to sell and architect industry-leading compute, storage, virtualization, and cloud solutions from our primary vendors, including Dell/EMC, Pure, Cisco, VMware, Nutanix, AWS, and Azure. You will lead pre-sales activities, including proposal development, proof-of-concept construction, demonstrations, roadmaps, and architecture design sessions. You will also author statements of work around the professional services we provide in the datacenter business.
Travel Requirements
In this role you will be expected to travel up to 25%. It will be based in Detroit or Grand Rapids, MI.
Job Responsibilities
- Position yourself as a trusted advisor with our customers, and partner with them to understand their requirements and business needs.
- Provide recommendations to customers for solutions and strategies.
- Partner with our vendor-partners to build trusted relationships and expertise in technology areas.
- Create functional designs and reference architectures, and assist with other project deliverables.
- Design state-of-the-art technical solutions that address customer requirements for availability, scalability, security, and performance.
- Create and deliver compelling technical artifacts directly to clients, including relevant drawings and diagrams.
- Conduct customer-facing demonstrations of products/solutions to enhance the customer experience and sales success outcome.
- Collaborate with other project teams on technical solutions to help improve Presidio’s intellectual property.
- Stay current on all technical developments related to our datacenter business and partners.
- Interact with sales in a trusted and collaborative way to build robust solutions for our customers.
- Perform customer assessments to support design, implementation, and ongoing support if required.
- Strong experience in Cisco UCS, Dell, and Pure (other storage vendors a plus)
- Basic knowledge of core networking, IP, subnetting, routing, VPN, DirectConnect, etc.
- Strong experience with virtualization (VMware vSphere, Nutanix)
- Working knowledge of most relevant operating systems (Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, etc.)
- Core understanding of storage technology fundamentals, including RAID, snapshots, deduplication, compression, encryption, SAN/NAS, NFS, iSCSI, etc.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations are necessary.
- Strong presentation and whiteboarding skills.
- Weekly back-office support with internal teams to refine sales motions and technical activities.
- Presales experience and/or experience working with a systems integrator.
- AWS and/or Azure experience for hybrid cloud conversations.
- Basic knowledge of automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, vRealize, Terraform, etc.)
- Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Basic understanding of observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, etc)
- Data Protection experience with Commvault, Rubrik, or Cohesity.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience.
- 7+ years designing and implementing complex datacenter solutions.
- 3+ years of experience working with mid-market and enterprise environments across multiple verticals.
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 marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.
At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit https://presidio.com
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Presidio has a strong commitment to the community we serve and our employees. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strive to have a workforce that includes the community we serve.
Presidio is an Equal Opportunity Employer Disability/Vets. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
The "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster
Presidio EEO Policy Statement is available here: https://www.presidio.com/careers
Presidio is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Presidio is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor requesting priority referrals of protected veterans for its openings. State Employment Services, please provide priority referrals to.
Notice of Massachusetts Candidates: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Recruitment Agencies, Please Note: Presidio does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Do not forward resumes/CVs to our career's email address, Presidio employees or any other means. Presidio is not responsible for any feeds related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.
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