Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)

SUMMARY:
📍 Centurcy City | Hybrid with client site travel | Permanent
💰 Market-related salary, based on experience and expertise
🕒 Work pattern: After-hours work may be required for maintenance windows
 
Design solutions that make real business impact.
 
We are recruiting on behalf of a leading technology solutions provider for an experienced Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales) to join their Cape Town–based team. This is a key, high-impact role for a technically strong infrastructure professional who enjoys customer engagement, solution design, and working closely with sales and delivery teams.
If you thrive on translating complex business requirements into practical, scalable technical architectures – and confidently presenting those solutions to customers – this could be your next career move.

POSITION INFO:
What You Bring / Requirements
Core Experience

• 5+ years’ experience as an infrastructure-focused Solutions Architect or senior engineer
• Strong background across storage, servers, virtualisation, and data protection
• Comfortable engaging with customers at both technical and executive levels

• Proven experience with enterprise SAN and storage solutions (Dell PowerStore / PowerVault preferred)
• Strong server design and deployment experience (Dell PowerEdge advantageous)
• Exposure to HPE, Lenovo or Pure Storage beneficial

• Strong VMware experience (vSphere essential)
• Exposure to vSAN, Nutanix or Hyper-V advantageous
• Experience with P2V / V2V migrations
• Solid Microsoft Server knowledge (current versions)
• Microsoft 365 / Office 365 experience
• Working knowledge of AD, DNS and DHCP
• Visio design skills are important

• Hands-on experience with Veeam backup and replication
• Experience with immutable repositories and Scale-Out Backup Repositories (SOBR)
• Rubrik exposure advantageous

• VMware VCP
• Veeam VMCE
• Dell PowerEdge / PowerStore certifications
• Rubrik certifications

• Lead customer engagements to understand business and technical requirements
• Design end-to-end infrastructure solutions aligned to customer outcomes
• Present, explain and defend solution designs in workshops and proposals

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to the Solution Sales team
• Ensure designs are practical, scalable and aligned with best practices
• Support project execution from design through to implementation handover

• Provide troubleshooting and fault-finding support when required
• Deliver clear documentation and knowledge transfer to delivery and operations teams
• Build strong relationships with technology vendors and identify solution opportunities

• Willingness to travel to remote customer sites as required
• After-hours work may be required for customer maintenance windows