Cloud Architect Jobs at Crayon in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

About the job

• Interested in designing and architecting solutions with Azure?
• Passionate about leading and guiding companies on their cloud journey in a hybrid role that includes both technical and consultative solutions?
• Do you want to work in an entrepreneurial environment as part of a global delivery team?

Apply to be the new Cloud Architect for Crayon Sri Lanka!

On offer is an opportunity for a Cloud Architect to join our team in Colombo. In this role, you will assume accountability for qualifying and scoping requirements from customers, designing a solution, and positioning Crayon as the partner of choice to help customers and partners transition to the cloud. You will have a close dialog with our customers, existing, and future network. Our customers span from large enterprises to mid-size companies and independent software vendors (ISV), looking to commence or continue their digital transformation journey. You will also package and sell migration plans leveraging existing frameworks established by our global Crayon team. In this role, you will be a subject matter expert on Azure, and strengthen the teams’ capabilities in this subject.

As a Cloud Architect, we can highlight the following responsibilities:

• Provide pre-sales support for sales teams involving positioning of Cloud Solutions, pre-sales qualification, and opportunity identification.
• Design and present customer/partner-specific solutions and standard services made available from globally distributed delivery teams.
• Acting as Trusted Advisor for our partners and customers regarding cloud solutions architecture and delivery
• Lead and QA project delivery and cloud assessments, ensuring customer satisfaction is maintained, project milestones are met and communication between delivery and customer/partner is maintained.
• Assess and develop cloud economics and migration plans tailored to customer requirements.
• Identify Cloud key drivers at our customers to grow share of wallet for Crayon.
• Accelerate our business and market share, by demonstrating Crayon’s technical expertise, and liaison with strategic partners

We expect that you will have success in this role 

if you are an entrepreneurial and self-driven technical professional with good time management skills. It is envisaged that you are results-oriented with an attention to detail and quality. We believe you have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively present solutions to customers and Crayon employees. You can work independently and collaborate across global multidisciplinary teams. In addition, you thrive in a dynamic work environment and enjoy staying current with new technologies.

Wanted Competency & Experience:

• 5-8 years of IT experience in consultancy or in-house
• Experience in Cloud Assessment & Deployment
• Understanding of IT Operations (Hybrid or full Cloud)
• Working knowledge of Cloud solutions trends with commercial customers
• Experience with developing migration plans, statements of work, or project deliverables.
• Knowledge or experience with multiple migrations and/or assessment tools
• Familiar with end-to-end delivery of cloud-based solutions

Practical Information:

• Location for this role: Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Languages required: Professional level English (verbal and written)
• Application deadline: ASAP. We will evaluate the candidates as they apply and consequently conduct selection
• Visa requirements: Must have work visa/work permit. We are looking for someone who is ideally already based in Sri Lanka and that could start relatively quickly.

Crayon is a leading provider of cloud and software optimization services. As specialists, we partner with the biggest names in software vendor management, including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, Adobe, Symantec, VMware, IBM, and Oracle. Our continued growth in recent years, in terms of financials and geographical expansion, has driven organic development into new regions and markets. Today we are more than 3800 highly skilled colleagues across the globe, spanning 47 countries. Agile thought-leadership and strong entrepreneurial spirit, combined with the desire to deliver results at the highest levels, have brought us together. Our flat structure creates an innovative environment and a strong performance-oriented culture, where everyone contributes to bringing us forward by helping customers and partners solve business challenges.