Solutions Architect, Cisco Data Center/Modern Platform (Remote)

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
At Presidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights.

The Role: Solutions Architect

Presidio has an opportunity for a motivated, intelligent, and energetic individual to join our National PreSales team supporting our Vista customer base. As a Solutions Architect, you’ll serve as a strategic pre-sales engineering resource focused on Cisco, enabling data center solutions from a market-leading technology provider. In this customer-facing role, you’ll collaborate with customers, Account Managers, and fellow Solutions Architects to drive pipeline growth, deliver enablement, and help position innovative solutions.

Travel Requirements:

This position requires occasional travel (few times/year). It will be based in any location in the United States.

Responsibilities include:

• Act as a technical resource for Cisco-based solutions in pre-sales engagements
• Deliver solution overviews and enablement to internal teams and customers
• Contribute to the development of sales strategies and support customer-facing efforts
• Stay current with technology trends, products, and industry best practices through training, webinars, and collaboration with national practices
• Create Solution diagrams, collect & analyze requirements data from customers, and perform other PreSales activities in support of engineering initiatives
• Research technical issues, answer customer questions about products, technologies, solutions, and offerings from our OEM partners
• Ensure quality and consistency of pre-sales deliverables by following standardized processes and workflows
• Collaborate with other team members to provide solutions for Presidio’s customers
• Work in a focused and directed manner to improve overall productivity & efficiency across Presidio’s PreSales team
• Participate in meetings with customers and sales teams to collect technical requirements from Presidio customers and develop an appropriate technical solution
• Assist in resolving pre-sales challenges and maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction
• Deliver client-facing status updates, presentations, and documentation throughout the sales cycle
• Work collaboratively with Presidio, Cisco, and other key teams to drive opportunities
• Assist in building and developing the Cisco sales pipeline by contributing to technical campaign support and go-to-market efforts

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Strong experience in Cisco UCS, Dell, and/or Pure (other storage vendors a plus)
• Basic knowledge of core networking, IP, subnetting, routing, VPN, DirectConnect, etc.
• Strong experience with virtualization (VMware vSphere, Nutanix)
• Working knowledge of most relevant operating systems (Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, etc.)
• Core understanding of storage technology fundamentals, including RAID, snapshots, deduplication, compression, encryption, SAN/NAS, NFS, iSCSI, etc.
• Strong passion for continuous learning, professional development, and emerging technologies
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly
• Proactive, self-driven mindset with a focus on customer success and collaboration

Additional Desired Skills:

• Presales experience and/or experience working with a systems integrator
• AWS and/or Azure experience for hybrid cloud conversations
• Basic knowledge of Cisco Cloud and AI Infrastructure
• Basic knowledge of automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, vRealize, Terraform, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Basic understanding of observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, etc)
• Data Protection experience with Commvault, Rubrik, or Cohesity
• Enterprise Networking skillsets around Enterprise networking, wireless, and security
• Experience with Infrastructure configurations, Statement of Works, and/or contracts in an IT Services industry

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
• 3+ years designing and implementing complex datacenter solutions
• 2+ years of experience working with mid-market and enterprise environments across multiple verticals

Your future at Presidio
Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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