The Compute & Storage Solutions Architect sits within the EOSITS team and is the technical authority for server and storage solution design in a pre-sales capacity. The role owns the translation of customer capacity, performance and growth requirements into costed, buildable end-user configurations across the major OEM platforms, and is accountable for the technical accuracy and commercial soundness of what EOSITS proposes.
The role works directly with customers, EOSITS sales, professional services colleagues, and OEM channel and distribution partners, from first requirement through to bill of materials, quotation and design sign-off. It includes taking part in the technical relationship with the OEM community including Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro and others keeping EOSITS current on platform roadmaps, configuration rules, licensing and channel program requirements.
As a secondary responsibility, the role provides infrastructure-layer input, ensuring that server, storage and networking foundations proposed to customers are fit for the container platforms and workloads our managed services team will host. It is an escalation point for infrastructure design decisions raised through service governance and a mentor to the wider technical presales team on compute and storage design.