Piper Companies is seeking an experienced Principal Solutions Architect to join a global leader in data center, cloud, and networking infrastructure solutions. This position will play a critical role in providing technical expertise and strategic support to sales teams, helping customers design and implement cutting-edge cloud, networking, and infrastructure solutions. Responsibilities for the Principal Solutions Architect: * Provide expert technical consultation for cloud, networking, and data center solutions, focusing on public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. * Collaborate with sales teams to develop creative IT solutions, ensuring optimal deployment and total cost of ownership. * Facilitate customer workshops to assess architecture needs and present technical solutions to a diverse range of audiences up to the C-Suite. * Lead the technical aspects of proposal development, solution sizing, and customer-facing presentations. * This team works to improve the probability of a deal closing, increasing the size of a deal in process, expanding the team's reach globally, and improving scale through tooling and automation. Qualifications for the Principal Solutions Architect: * Minimum of 5+ years of experience in technical roles within hosting, cloud, networking, or IT consulting. * 2+ years of experience in solution selling and/or pre-sales technical support. * Expertise in cloud services, networking, and hardware infrastructure (e.g., storage, security). * Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. Compensation/Benefits for the Principal Solutions Architect: * Salary: $175,000 - $205,000 with a 40% bonus potential. * Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Sick Leave as Required by Law This job opens for applications on 12/17/2024. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date Networking, CCNA, CCNP, Storage, WAN, SAN, LAN, Cloud, AWS, Automation, DevOps, Solution Architect, Pre-Sales, GCP, Azure, Data Center, SDN, NFV, OpenStack, OSI, SAN, NAS, EMC, NetApp, Sun, Brocade, Juniper, hyper-converged, VMWare, Cisco, Network Peering, Internet Exchanges, MPLS, IPVPN, QoS #LI-JQ1 #LI-Hybrid