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# Solution Architect (UK)

- **Company:** Nexcess
- **Location:** Guildford, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £100,000.0 - £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Border Gateway Protocol, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, RAID, Hardware Design, Internet Protocol, IP Routing, Systems Architecture, Virtual Local Area Networks, Scripting, Google Cloud, Information Technology, Terraform
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5878692082

## About the Role

* Strong understanding of IT infrastructure (cloud, on-prem, hybrid);
 * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP);
 * Confident presenter with customer-facing experience;
 * Knowledge of networking, security, and system architecture. VLAN, RAID, CPU and hardware design, IP networking, IP routing and BGP;
 * Ability to design scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions;
 * Ability to create technical documentation and architecture diagrams;
 * Ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical audiences;
 * Confident presenter with customer-facing experience;
 * Strong collaboration skills with sales, engineering, and product teams;
 * Customer-focused mindset with a problem-solving approach;
 * Ability to manage multiple opportunities in parallel;
 * A fluent English speaker.

Nice-to-have requirements:

 * Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent experience;
 * Terraform: Hands-on experience in writing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates for automating resource deployments;
 * Already working as a Solution Architect;
 * Experience with baremetal servers hardware;
 * Basic scripting;
 * STEM bachelor degree.

## Description

* Overall solution design and product selection;
 * Technical discovery: working closely with the customer, arranging the requirements, figuring out the opportunities and the limitations;
 * Supporting the sales team during onboarding of potential new customers;
 * Technical presentations, demos, screencasts to sales and customers;
 * Reporting to the product management team about what improvements should be made to our product roadmap;
 * Managing stock availability and deployment timelines together with the vendors and the supply chain managers;
 * Learning about new products and technologies in the hosting infrastructure industry;
 * Working in Guildford at least 4 days a week, as well as during business trips to customer sites and sales events.


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