Solutions Architect (Datacenter and Cloud Infrastructure)
About the role
Join New Era Technology
Where People First is at the heart of everything we do. With a global team of over 3,000 professionals, we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, empowered, and inspired to grow. Our mission is to securely connect people, places, and information with end-to-end technology solutions at scale.
At New Era, you'll join a team-oriented culture that prioritizes your personal and professional development. Work alongside industry-certified experts, access continuous training, and enjoy competitive benefits. Guided by our core attributes — putting people first, embracing continuous learning, and thriving through collaboration and inclusion — we nurture our people to deliver exceptional customer service.
New Era Technology offers:
- Full Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401K match
- 28 PTO Days including company holidays
Summary
We currently have a need for a Cloud and onPrem Data Center Architect to design and implement solutions for Enterprise and Data Center computer and networking, Cloud Hypervisor and BCDR solutions. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of relevant work experience in Cloud Networking, Network Security, Hypervisors (VMware and Hyper-V), Azure WAF and associated components, BCDR (Datto and Veeam), SAN and storage solutions, and overseeing strategic Technology Programs at Enterprise Clients. Global Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare or Managed Service experience is strongly preferred.
Primary Duties include but are not limited to:
- Develop engineering solutions and explain technologies to customers.
- Gather requirements and propose solutions including hardware, software, engineering, and Business Continuity services.
- Provide recommendations on viability, implementation strategies and optimal implementation of solutions.
- Develop design and system configuration based on technical requirements
- Develop scalable solutions for DC, LAN, WAN, WLAN, Firewalls, and other network devices.
- Develop scalable solutions for physical and virtualized compute (onPrem and Cloud) and storage solutions. (VMWare, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS)
- Develop scalable solutions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions.
- Assess and design onPrem to Cloud (Azure/AWS) migration solutions including optimization, workflows, processes, and level of effort.
- Prepare statement of work (SOW’s), level of effort and bill of materials (BOM’s) for projects.
- Recommend enhancements/changes to system design as appropriate
- Identify, research, evaluate and implement emerging network technologies.
- Provide oversight for configuration, installation and maintenance
- Provide documentation of requirements, design decisions, and ensure continuity with the delivery teams.
- Train deployment/field engineers for on-site deployment/troubleshooting.
Primary Task examples:
- Review exiting networking and security environments and design/recommend modern, cloud-driven solutions.
- Review existing hypervisor footprint and propose migration or optimization strategies.