Cloud Advisor Job Description

Cloud Advisor Job Description

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Cloud advisor provides technical leadership in architecture and design for software development and the introduction of new technologies in the Public Cloud (AWS / Azure), and API Space.

Cloud Advisor Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Provide hands on technical design and secure cloud infrastructure implementation leadership
Promote a clear understanding of the hybrid delivery model that is relevant to the client's business
This includes evaluating the potential client’s requirements, managing a timely process under deadline, writing executive summaries and technical content, work with technical team members to develop the written approach to the work, editing and rewriting proposal content into clear, effective, and consistent responses
Build relationships and technical credibility with senior IT executives at current and potential customers through conversation and discovery activities
Nurture partner relationships, such as Accenture and Microsoft in the geography
Work with sales team on territory and account planning for the geography
Participate in market visibility and marketing activities within the geography
Understanding and representing business strategy (business objectives, business drivers, business relationships, key performance indicators, industry drivers )
Contribution in maximizing opportunities for Marketing Cloud services
Closure of services deals in collaboration with members in services sales, solution engineering and the greater Success Services Sales Support team

Cloud Advisor Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Cloud Advisor

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AZ, CISSP, AWS, ITIL, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CCNP, CCNA, CSG

Education for Cloud Advisor

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the cloud advisor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Business, Engineering, Technical, Education, MBA, Communication, Design, Computer, Information Technology

Skills for Cloud Advisor

Desired skills for cloud advisor include:

Softlayer Products and Services
ES Value Maps and SAP Solution Manager is an advantage
Concepts
Demonstrate the ability to quickly assimilate information about new technologies and business models
Implementation
Issues of at least one technology area
Patterns
Azure
OpenStack and Cloud Foundry as
Software development and current software architecture trends and technologies

Desired experience for cloud advisor includes:

Ideal candidates may include successful CIOs who have delivered on transformation programs, or professionals that have delivered major IT transformation projects within enterprise environments while working for a leading consulting firm
You may be a candidate operating within a specific industry sector, or able to draw from a range of industry sector experience necessary to command the respect of a major organization as you act in an advisory capacity
Sound knowledge on of the following databases, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server
10+ years of experience in information security, primarily in application security
Become known as a leader in the region, working in partnership with clients
Lead and contribute to Cloud pre sales activities, consulting on client projects and delivery of transformational projects

Cloud Advisor Examples

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Cloud Advisor Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a cloud advisor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for cloud advisor
  • Honest, dependable and trustworthy
  • Drive to succeed and are motivated to help others
  • Able to use good judgment to provide solid financial guidance
  • Passionate about living a life of generosity by serving others, not just selling products
  • Definition and positioning of tailored engagement plans based on targeted goals identified and signed-off together with customer, considering the full Enterprise Support and Preferred Care portfolios (ES Academy, Value Maps, Remote Services, Enterprise Support Report, Tools and Methodologies)
  • Partnering with the North America S/4HANA Cloud field sales team, the VAT including presales, CMI, Chief Customer Office, Product Management and Development, and Customer Engagement Executives to identify revenue opportunities, create account strategies, and build and execute sales plays
  • Leading customer engagements to assess strategic objectives, map out innovation scenarios, identify key improvement opportunities and other sources of economic value, and present board-level justification for change including business cases and executive summary value propositions
  • Developing SAP's brand through thought leadership delivered through content creation and presentations, social and traditional media interviews
  • Developing industry relevant field-facing content and points of view, and presenting them live to prospects / customers
  • Partnering with the regional S/4HANA Cloud field sales team, presales, Competitive Intelligence, Chief Customer Office, Product Management and Development, and Customer Engagement Executives to identify revenue opportunities, create account strategies, and build and execute sales plays
Qualifications for cloud advisor
  • At least 1 year experience in Softlayer (or similar) Products and Services
  • Possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Build on you excellent collaboration skills to drive business and success within a Matrix organization
  • An ambassador for Cloud technology
  • Identify, lead and contribute to the creation of best practices, white papers, workshops
  • Provide thought leadership and collaborate with internal AWS Service Teams, present at conferences, summits and Customer venues as a Cloud thought leader and strategic executive Cloud advisor
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a cloud advisor. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for cloud advisor
  • Source, attract and close passive and referred candidates
  • Manage the full-cycle recruiting process with an emphasis on building strong hiring manager partnerships, candidate advocacy and strategies that lead to timely fulfillment of open positions
  • Leverage multiple sourcing strategies and channels including your external network, creative web searches and internal referrals to provide high quality candidates
  • Manage interview and hiring decision-making process with both interviewers and hiring managers
  • Works deals assigned to the sales team supported, prioritizing effort based on maximizing total impact on team productivity and profit, or as directed by Practice Leaders or Sales Director
  • Proactively scopes the Microsoft cloud solution required to address customer requirements, assesses customers’ met and unmet needs, and recommends solutions that optimize value for both the customer and the firm
  • Provides support to team member sales associates in order to enhance their product knowledge and technical sales skills
  • Opportunistically pursues additional business development opportunities within clients
  • Nuture relationships with Microsoft in-market field sellers, partner technology specialists, and partner sales executives
  • Keep up with Microsoft product announcements and sales incentives and programs
Qualifications for cloud advisor
  • Knowledge of Windows and Linux/UNIX Operating Systems - scripting is a plus
  • Microsoft Server OS 2003/2008 and Windows XP Pro/Windows 7 experience (MCSE a plus)
  • VMWare Experien (VCP and or ESXI 6 is a plus)
  • The ability to effectively bridge the gap between the business and IT organizations, an understanding of vertical industries
  • A broad-spectrum understanding of all the components of the Microsoft platform
  • A strong technical competency and depth in specific portions of the Microsoft platform
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a cloud advisor. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for cloud advisor
  • Design and develop secure cloud architectures for the organization
  • Serve as a technical SME for cloud services, and platforms (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Public/Hybrid/Community Cloud services, Cloud management tools and converged infrastructure)
  • Act as a change agent for technologies and supporting processes to maximize results measured by performance and availability, business agility, technology freshness, and cost optimization
  • Execute technical feasibility assessments for cloud solutions and migrate legacy applications to cloud platforms
  • Atmos/Object Storage (Swift)
  • ECS/Object Storage
  • VSphere/VCD
  • SLES/SUSE Linux
  • Globally distributed High Availability Software as a Service
  • Mobile service
Qualifications for cloud advisor
  • Experience/knowledge of Networking - practical application of technologies, protocols, and related standards including TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML, LAN, WAN, Routers
  • Broad Microsoft platform skills
  • Demonstrated area of expertise within the broader Microsoft platform
  • Provide thought leadership and collaborate with internal AWS Service Teams, present at conferences, summits and Customer venues as a Cloud thought leader and strategic executive Cloud Security advisor
  • 10+ years practical experience designing and building technology solutions
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in Cloud technologies and Enterprise solutions
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a cloud advisor. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for cloud advisor
  • Develops and manages relationships across the whole client base, discussing benefits and value at board level
  • Leads significant MOC initiatives/ projects
  • Clients are typically C-level managers
  • Partner with the Cloud operational leader(s) and cross-functional teams to provide finance decision support to achieve strategic cloud objectives
  • Serve as a leader within Finance for Cloud and in partnership with other functional leads, including Budget, Chargeback, Accounts Payable, and Procurement
  • Drive process and system improvements within and across the department that increase cloud financial efficiency
  • Evaluate and advocate for cloud financial organization needs (people and tools) as needed for a growing cloud service line
  • Develop, in concert with the Cloud technical team, a financial governance framework for existing and incoming cloud projects and services
  • Participate in the development, monitoring and enforcement of cloud financial policies
  • A Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science or equivalent experience
Qualifications for cloud advisor
  • Business Acumen, Coaching
  • Business and IT Strategy Analysis
  • Provable experience in major IT projects involving the whole business process
  • Experience ITIL standards
  • Broad Cross-Portfolio Product Knowledge
  • Good understanding of the HW and Networking principles
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Cloud Advisor Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of cloud advisor. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for cloud advisor
  • Experience in a similar role within a mining environment or large scale global organisation
  • Lead clients through the assessments of current systems/application portfolios and development of a transformation to cloud strategy and roadmpap
  • Gain and convey expertise in (and study of) technologies, IT drivers, and IT trends for specified industries and markets focused on
  • Talk to customers about technology decisions including server, storage, networking, virtualization and other components of cloud projects
  • Have a desire and eagerness to learn to be the lead technical person - training will be provided but the need for ongoing self-training a must
  • Training including whiteboard presentations to peer group
  • Customer facing via phone call & conference call
  • Provides part # lookup and quote creation for cloud requests
  • Provides educational assistance to Sales Teams
  • Manages requests from Sales to designated SLA’s to ensure proper customer satisfaction/experience is achieved
Qualifications for cloud advisor
  • Proven knowledge of the Public Sector IT procurement process
  • Required experience and skills.3+ years executing a full mix of marketing activities
  • English speaker, Arabic language is highly desirable
  • Experience of end-user and channel marketing
  • Obtain state insurance licenses with required lines of authority (life, health & variable contracts) prior to the solicitation or sale of insurance products and obtain and maintain Series 7 and 66
  • Have all outside business activity reviewed to ensure no conflicts of interest exist and compliance of regulatory requirements are met

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