Joinour Architecture Services team!
Architecture Services is central to Softcat's technical presales capability, translating customer needs into robust, commercially viable solutions across datacentre and hybrid infrastructure.
Working with customers, sales teams, vendors and technical specialists, we are strengthening our Cisco capability with a Senior Solutions Architect specialising in Cisco UCS.
Success. The Softcat Way.
As one of the UK's leading IT infrastructure providers and a FTSE 250 listed company, we have built a reputation for excellence. Our strategy is simple – we believe that highly engaged employees are the key to building customer trust and loyalty over the years. This trust and loyalty, combined with our market leading growth and performance, enables us to invest in our technology and services capabilities.
As a Senior Solutions Architect – Cisco, you will be the technical authority for Cisco datacentre solutions, particularly Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).
You will lead customer discovery and design scalable infrastructure solutions across the presales lifecycle, from workshops and sizing to proposals, Bills of Materials and technical handover.
You will also develop the wider team's Cisco capability through mentoring, knowledge sharing and technical enablement.
As Cisco UCS Architect, you'll be responsible for:
- Act as technical authority for Cisco UCS and related datacentre infrastructure.
- Lead customer discovery and workshops, translating business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient and commercially appropriate solutions.
- Design Cisco UCS compute, fabric and management architectures across C-Series rack servers and X-Series modular systems.
- Produce accurate configurations, Bills of Materials, proposals, options papers, architecture diagrams and High-Level Designs.
- Provide technical governance and peer review for complex Cisco opportunities.
- Support sales teams by clearly articulating solution benefits, differentiation and business value.
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