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.
We'd love you to have:
- Strong experience designing and positioning Cisco UCS solutions, with sound knowledge of compute, fabric connectivity and management.
- Experience designing enterprise datacentre infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, virtualisation, resilience and availability.
- Proven ability to lead discovery, own complex opportunities and take solutions through technical approval and handover.
- Experience producing and validating Bills of Materials, solution designs and customer-facing technical documentation.
- Working knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments on Cisco UCS, including vSAN designs validated against the VMware Compatibility Guide and the relevant Cisco UCS hardware and software compatibility information.
- Knowledge of converged infrastructure solutions incorporating Cisco UCS, including FlexPod with NetApp storage and FlashStack with Everpure storage.
- Awareness of Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix and the applicable Cisco and Nutanix hardware compatibility requirements.
We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!
Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
- Hybrid working
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
- Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs
Working with us
Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
Join us
To become part of the success story, please apply now.
If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/
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