Cologix; Inc.
Senior Director, Solutions Architecture/Engineering (Remote: USA)
Denver, CO · Director
Sponsorship not specified$175k-$210kDetected 93 days ago
AWSComplianceSalesProcurementCustomer SupportCiscoLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- The position offers a direct growth path into Vice President, SASE.
- Director will provide both technical guidance to the SASE team as well as managerial oversight and promote growth within the team.
- Director will be to act as a technical advisor/consultant for Cologix' customers, and the Cologix' sales team, architecting creative and complex co-location and IT/cloud/networking solutions for our customers.
Responsibilities
- Broad knowledge of Internet technologies including servers, networking equipment and storage design solutions for colocation, hosting and cloud.
- Able to quickly and accurately assess current operations, identify design flaws, and build consensus on both a proposed solution and plan of action.
- Independently develop relationships and communicate with high-level internal and external technical staff.
- Able to design and present highly technical concepts and specifics solutions to internal and external audiences of varying technical capabilities in a clear, concise and easily understood manner.
- Influence cross functional departments to gain alignment and to drive design solutions with the appropriate organizations.
Requirements
- Proven ability to mentor staff and grow internally.
- Detailed knowledge of hosting technologies.
- Experience understanding RFP/RFI/RFQ formats and responses
- Ability to combine technical elements with business needs and business requirements of clients.
- Ability to work independently and consistently achieve results
Nice to have
- CDCP / CDFOS / CNCDP or equivalent knowledge/experience
- CCNA/CCNP Cloud or equivalent knowledge/experience
- AWS / Google / Microsoft cloud certification knowledge/experience
- 20+ years of technical experience - colocation/hosting/cloud companies, either operations or technical sales position preferred
Compensation
- $175k-$210k
Company info
- Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Cologix is a leading North America network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company.
- We provide our nearly 2,000 customers with direct access to our local operations teams, resulting in strong partnerships enabled by exceptional operational support and unparalleled customer service.
- Backed by one of the largest North American infrastructure funds, Cologix's experienced leadership team, certified staff and commitment to ESG initiatives help form a culture that values our people, our environment and our clients.
- Our platform gives customers access to 45+ digital edge and Scalelogix℠ hyperscale edge data centers in 13 markets across the United States and Canada along with a carrier-dense ecosystem of 710+ networks, 360+ cloud providers, 35+ onramps and seven Internet exchanges.
- About the Position: We are looking for a Senior Director to lead the Solutions Architecture/Engineering (SASE) team.
- This entrepreneurial driven colleague would help support Cologix' sales team in developing and closing sales by providing colocation/networking expertise and pre-sales technical support for prospects, customers and partners across our North American Platform.
- Director will lead a team of engineers and technicians in support of the customers to develop designs specifically tailored to the individual customer.
- The candidate will be a key component in educating customers of all sizes, from retail to hyperscale, on the value proposition of Cologix and participating in deep technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.
- Director will be knowledgeable in, and support, all of Cologix' product lines, proficient in colocation/networking environments and will effectively manage a demanding schedule among a wide variety of technical and pre-sales goals.
- They should have a high-level understanding of the cloud services networking environments (private/public/hybrid) to define customer requirements and translate those requirements into Cologix technical solutions.
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