Solutions Architect

Description:

As a Solutions Architect for Megaport, you’ll have the ability to work with an industry leading technology that enables cloud networking solutions via a globally connected software defined network. You’ll interact with the top hyper-scale and cloud solution partners around the world, and develop innovative network solutions to meet the changing needs of Enterprises in a data driven world.

Our ideal Solutions Architect will have a history of successfully designing and implementing layer 2 and layer 3 network based solutions with a strong background in cloud computing. This candidate will be able to drive technical solutions with senior engineering and business leaders within our customer and partner base. Using their technical background and the skills to train and enable Megaport partners to utilize Megaport services, they’ll also be driving direct technical discussions with Enterprise customers. The Solutions Architect is a key enabler for the APAC sales team that will be instrumental in driving long term growth and success of the Megaport platform.

About Megaport

Megaport has transformed the way IT gets connected. We're global leaders in Network as a Service (NaaS), changing the way businesses reach the cloud. We're also a leading partner to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, NYSE, and many other leading technology companies. Megaport is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange with a market cap exceeding $2 Billion. We’re a lean, high-achieving team made up of over 230 members globally. While the company is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, employees are spread out across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Staff enjoy an environment that is collaborative, supportive, and fun.

Our Team Culture

Join a team of globally-positioned industry experts that lead by example. We do not compromise our values for commercial gain; we are all custodians of our culture, and the customer is at the centre of everything we do. Our employees are motivated, adaptable, persistent, hard-working, and dynamic. Our culture permeates everything we do and this, in turn with a global vision, forms a commitment to each other, our customers, and shareholders alike.

What You Will Be Doing

• Support sales opportunities for Megaport by creating and delivering demonstrations to customers and cloud sales partners, product education and presentations for use by the Sales Team, specifically as it pertains to integration with our cloud partners product sets.
• Ability to understand and articulate partner and customer business requirements, develop corresponding solution architecture design leveraging Megaport and partner services.
• Learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of Megaport product and solutions, competitive products, as well as the products of our key cloud services partners (Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle, Alibaba, IBM, Nutanix, SAP) and transfer such knowledge to the Sales and Marketing team as well as to our authorized sales partners.
• Learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of Megaport’s software, API, and be able to engage in technical discussions with our customers, prospects, and prospective partners.
• Partner and collaborate with the broader Asia Pacific sales team to drive partner relationships.
• Autonomy over developing network architecture content for external partners.
• Working with our partners to develop restful API and Terraform integrations, while enhancing Megaport’s current offerings.