Cloud Solutions Architect
Columbia, MD, United States
Overview:
Keysight is on the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~15,000 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.
Our powerful, award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. Diversity, equity & inclusion are integral parts of our culture and drivers of innovation at Keysight. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.
Keysight Technologies is looking for a Cloud Solutions Architect for delivering cloud-native solutions across our enterprise, government and service provider vertical markets.
You are an expert in virtualization, container technologies, public cloud environments and easily understand complex customer environments. Drive conversion in the sales funnel by building trust in customers, partners with your expertise.
Responsibilities:
You're the customer-facing solution architect, leading discussions for understanding their cloud and network architecture
Recommend best practice to enable visibility solutions in virtual and cloud environments
Become an expert on demonstrating our cloud visibility solutions, with 3rd party open source and commercial integrated security and performance monitoring solutions
Stay informed with cloud and virtual technologies, Cloud and virtual company roadmap releases and bring back the knowledge to customers, partners and engineering
Maintain virtual and various public cloud demo environments with the latest versions for demo and training/educational purposes
Serve as instructor for hands-on training to customers, sales engineering and partner ecosystems
Ardent customer advocate in understanding their requirements and driving features, capabilities to shape the roadmap to service the end markets
Experienced in cross-functional team collaboration to bring new product capabilities to market
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
10 years of hands-on pre-sales, sales designing, deploying, supporting cloud and data center virtualization platforms
Systems engineering knowledge IP networks, including IPv4/IPv6, IPSEC, SSL and related networking technologies
Hands on use of AWS (EC2, EKS) platform capabilities, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware EXSi, NSX-T and virtual/cloud/container ecosystem technologies
Led customer facing roles in pre-sales engineering, sales engineering and architecture discussions to design bespoke solutions that fit unique customer requirements
Strong customer presentation skills, ability to demonstrate cloud and virtual products and re-create environments to validate customer needs and requirements
Location
US based, travel required (20% minimum)
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Keysight Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.
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