Description
We are seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Virtualization, Observability, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with business acumen and has extensive experience architecting complex enterprise solutions across infrastructure, networking, cloud, and operations domains.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead architecture discussions, solution design workshops, and technical strategy engagements with customers.
- Develop end-to-end solution architectures spanning virtualization, cloud management, observability, and software-defined networking.
- Provide architectural governance and ensure alignment with customer business and technical objectives.
- Act as a trusted advisor for digital transformation, cloud modernization, and operational excellence initiatives.
- Architect and implement hybrid and multi-cloud solutions.
- Design cloud governance, automation, self-service, provisioning, and policy-driven operational frameworks.
- Develop cloud operating models that improve agility, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Guide customers through cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives.
- Design and optimize virtualization solutions using VMware, Nutanix, HPE VM Essentials, Hyper-V, KVM, and related technologies.
- Architect resilient and scalable infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical workloads.
- Lead capacity planning, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies.
- Architect enterprise observability solutions covering infrastructure, applications, networks, and cloud environments.
- Design monitoring, analytics, event correlation, automation, and operational intelligence frameworks.
- Leverage metrics, logs, traces, topology, and telemetry data to improve operational visibility and business outcomes.
- Enable proactive operations through automation and AI-assisted insights.
- Design software-defined networking architectures for enterprise data centres and hybrid cloud deployments.
- Define network segmentation, micro-segmentation, Zero Trust architectures, and SD-WAN strategies.
- Integrate networking, security, and cloud operations into a unified operational model.
- Drive network automation and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking, or solution architecture roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise technology solutions.
- Experience engaging with senior technical and business stakeholders.
Technical Expertise:
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere / ESXi, HPE VM Essentials, Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM
- Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Private Cloud Platforms
- Cloud Management Platforms: HPE Morpheus, VMware Aria, Service Management and Automation Platforms
- Networking & SDN: Enterprise Networking, Software Defined Networking (SDN), SD-WAN, Network Security, Micro-Segmentation, Routing and Switching, Network Automation
- Automation & Modern Platforms: Terraform, Ansible, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
Preferred Qualifications:
- VMware VCDX, VCP, or equivalent certification.
- Cisco CCNP/CCIE certification.
- AWS/Azure Architect certifications.
- Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD).
- Experience with managed services, enterprise consulting, or large-scale cloud transformation programmes.