We are looking for a
Senior Cloud Architect - Presales Engineer with deep, hands-on expertise across Huawei Cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP, and a strong specialization in Disaster Recovery (DR) and multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud architecture design. The role combines technical solution architecture with customer-facing presales activity: designing solutions, producing high-quality technical documentation and proposals, and delivering compelling presentations to clients, partners, and internal stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end cloud architectures (current-state, target-state, and DR/multi-cloud) across Huawei Cloud, AWS, Azure, and GCP based on customer requirements
- Lead technical presales engagements: discovery workshops, solution design sessions, and proof-of-concept scoping
- Architect DR strategies (cross-region failover, active-active/active-passive, cold/warm/hot standby) spanning single-cloud and multi-cloud/hybrid scenarios
- Produce high-quality technical documentation: solution design documents (SDDs), architecture diagrams, RFP/RFI responses, and proposals
- Deliver clear, confident presentations to technical and executive audiences, including customer workshops and partner enablement sessions
- Partner with sales teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions and accurate pricing/BoQs
- Support vendor and partner relationship management (Huawei, AWS, Azure, GCP) for technical alignment, licensing, and co-sell opportunities
- Collaborate with delivery/engineering teams to ensure proposed designs are implementable and align with best practices
- Stay current on hyperscaler and Huawei Cloud service updates, pricing models, and competitive positioning
- Contribute to internal capability building: templates, reference architectures, and presales playbooks
- Own technical governance of proposed solutions, including security, compliance, and well-architected framework reviews, to ensure designs meet client risk and regulatory requirements
- Lead or support proof-of-concept (PoC) and pilot implementations to validate proposed architectures and de-risk full-scale delivery before contract signature
- Mentor and coach junior presales and solutions engineers on cloud architecture best practices, DR design methodology, and presales techniques
- Track and report presales pipeline metrics (win rates, solution reuse, common technical objections) to sales and delivery leadership to drive continuous improvement
Requirements
- 8+ years in cloud infrastructure/architecture roles, including 3+ years in a presales, solutions architecture, or customer-facing technical role
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Strong working knowledge of at least 3 of the 4 platforms (Huawei Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP), with working familiarity across all four
- Proven experience designing Disaster Recovery architectures (RTO/RPO-driven design, backup/replication strategies, failover automation)
- Demonstrated experience with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture design and trade-off analysis
- Solid grounding in core infrastructure domains: networking (VPC/VNet design, NAT/SNAT/DNAT, VPN/ExpressRoute/Direct Connect equivalents), compute, storage, and IAM/security
- Familiarity with cost optimization and cloud pricing models (on-demand, reserved/savings plans) across providers
- Exposure to containers/Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (Arabic is a plus)
- Strong technical writing ability — proposals, SDDs, RFP responses that are clear, structured, and client-ready
- Confident, polished presentation skills for both technical and C-level audiences
- Strong stakeholder management skills across sales, delivery, and vendor/partner teams
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent opportunities under time pressure
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation, or Huawei Cloud equivalents) for automating and templatizing multi-cloud deployments
- Working knowledge of cloud security and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks) as applied to solution design and client risk assessments
- Ability to build TCO/ROI models and business cases to support and justify solution recommendations to client stakeholders
- Certificates:
- Huawei Cloud (HCIP/HCIE Cloud) or equivalent
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
