Sr Solution Consultant

Job Description

Our people are the core of our business. Our 1ACI team represents a globally diverse, passionate and dedicated group of thousands of individuals around the world who share a common commitment to making our customers successful by driving the future of payments. As a Sr. Solution Consultant with Cloud Infrastructure Administrator skills for the Sales organization, you can help make possibilities happen.

Responsibilities:

Manage the Sales Cloud Infrastructure: (80% - 90%)

• Oversee the day-to-day operations of Pre-Sales dedicated cloud environments, ensuring optimal performance and availability.
• Implement and manage cloud services and resources, including virtual machines, containers, storage, and networking.
• Optimize resource usage to ensure cost-efficiency and scalability.
• Implement security measures to protect cloud environments from threats, including OS patching, WAF and Firewall tunning.
• Provide support for cloud-based applications and services, including product releases upgrades and patching.
• Work closely with IT, development, and security teams to align company cloud strategies with our business unit goals.
• Lead conversations with Network and Infrastructure teams to implement required changes as needed.
• Operate OS with application maintenance, backup and restore and other general tasks.
• Keep abreast of the latest developments in cloud computing.
• Evaluate and recommend new cloud services and tools to improve infrastructure.
  
  

Pre-Sales Services: (10% - 20%)

• Implement initiatives to streamline Proof of Concepts delivery to prospects.
• Assist with prospects cloud environment proposals sizing and costs estimations.
• Act as internal evangelizer and trainer for Cloud technology.
  
  

Learning and Development

• Creates and executes against an individual development plan with management support.
• Strives for more competency development.
• Desires and capitalizes on continual development in the workplace within their industry discipline.
  
  

Communication and Executive Presence

• Contributes market perspective to development of solution/product roadmap and identifies and produces key value propositions (use cases) in their segment.
• Clearly indicates expertise through effective communication and strong business acumen.
• Organizes and expresses business value and overcomes customer objections.
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Understand and adhere to all corporate policies to include but not limited to the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the job:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft Azure AZ-104 “Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate”
• 5-10 Electronic Payments business knowledge
• 3+ years of experience working as cloud infrastructure administrator.
• Familiar with: Cloud Native software / CI-CD / Dockers / Kubernetes / Ansible / IAC / Restful APIs.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
  
  

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience needed for the job:

• Software development in any language preferred.
• AWS and GCP Clouds knowledge and certifications is a good plus.
• Consultative sales experience.
• Understands how technology impacts business
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Ability to self-motivate and work independently with little supervision
• Works effectively in team environment
• Ability to use a personal computer with proficient skills in business applications such as Microsoft Office
  
  

Work Environment:

• Telecommuter with office attendance alternatives.
  
  

Domestic and/or international travel required