Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect (SA) is a key pre-sales technical position in Alibaba Cloud international business division. Our solution architects are experienced cloud architects with comprehensive IT knowledge and industry insight and are, ultimately, the key to success on implementing projects. Solutions Architects are responsible for developing solutions in Alibaba Cloud and helping customers and partners to develop their applications and services on the Alibaba Cloud platform.

Responsibilities:

Closely work with customers to ensure their cloud architecture is successfully implemented by assisting them in building their applications and services on the Alibaba Cloud platform.

- Create and present solution architecture designs to C-level/senior personnel.

- Responsible for understanding the unique requirements of customers and partners, and provide appropriate technical cloud solutions and architecture designs based on Alibaba Cloud cloud services.

- Provide assistance to Alibaba Cloud customers and partners in migrating their existing IT system onto Alibaba Cloud platforms. This includes providing migration technique support for both applications and databases.

- Responsible for demo development and testing Alibaba Cloud services.

※ Candidate who has professional Cloud Certificate from Alibaba Cloud or other Cloud vendors is preferred.

Requirements:

* A background in IT, computer science and/or cloud computing with a good understanding of networking, servers, storage systems, enterprise applications and the cloud.

* A minimum of 4 years experience working and consulting on enterprise architecture design and has a strong understanding of customer needs and requirements.

* Expert knowledge and understanding of cloud architecture design and familiar with architecture methodology and practice in internet based applications/websites. Must also be experienced with procedures and tools for application migration and cloud/virtualization/container solutions for enterprise customers.

* Familiar and hand-on experience with one of the public Clouds covering IaaS and PaaS services.

* Experience with one of the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) technologies.

* Experience with Contianer/K8S and Serverless services and implementation, experience with SOA architecture design.

* Experience with RDS like MySQL or PostgreSQL or others, and experienced with NoSQL like Redis or MongoDB or others;

* Experience with BigData technologies like Hadoop eco-system is a plus.

* Excellent writing, proof-reading and editing skills. Able to create documentation that can express cloud architectures using text and diagrams.

* Able to work under high pressure, a quick learner with a passion for cloud technology. Able to think strategically about businesses, products and technical challenges.

* Good communication skills, a good team player and has professional attitude to work.

* Fluent in French and English, Chinese is a big plus.