Job Description

Hybrid Cloud & Public Cloud Pre-Sales Consultant

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Location: Noida, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune

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Experience: 3–12 Years

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Role Summary

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Support hybrid cloud pre-sales engagements by designing solutions across on-prem, private, and public cloud environments. Work closely with sales and delivery teams to build customer-centric solutions.

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Key Responsibilities

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- Support technical presales engagements for datacenter, hybrid cloud, private cloud, public cloud, automation, operations and AI infrastructure opportunities.
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- Participate in discovery discussions and customer workshops to understand current-state infrastructure, pain points, transformation objectives, business priorities and budget considerations.
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- Translate customer requirements into solution architectures covering compute, storage, backup, network, virtualization, security, automation, observability and cloud operations.
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- Develop solution proposals, high-level architectures, BoMs, sizing assumptions, SoW inputs, migration approaches and implementation assumptions.
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- Support RFP/RFI responses with explicit technical, operational and commercial inputs.
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- Prepare and deliver customer presentations, solution walkthroughs, whiteboarding sessions, demos and PoCs.
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- Collaborate with OEMs and technology partners.
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- Position infrastructure modernization solutions and cloud operating models.
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- Contribute to automation and operations transformation solutions covering SRE, AIOps, observability, ITSM integration, infrastructure as code and runbook automation.
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- Support AI Factory and AI-ready infrastructure solutioning across GPU compute, high-performance networking, storage, Kubernetes/container platforms, MLOps/LLMOps and operational governance.
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- Explain Agentic AI use cases for IT and cloud operations, such as intelligent ticket triage, root cause analysis, autonomous remediation, autonomous Finops, knowledge assistants, change-risk insights and workflow agents.
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- Maintain reusable presales assets including proposal templates, architecture patterns, demo narratives, reference BoMs and competitive positioning material.
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Required Skills

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- Presales and solutioning: Experience in IT infrastructure, datacenter, cloud, automation, operations or transformation presales; ability to convert requirements into solution outcomes.
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- Datacenter foundation: Understanding of servers, storage, backup, network, virtualization, operating systems, databases, disaster recovery, security and enterprise availability requirements.
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- Private cloud and SDDC: Exposure to VMware VCF/vSAN/Aria, Nutanix, Azure Stack HCI, OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift virtualization or similar private cloud/SDDC platforms.
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- Public cloud: Working understanding of AWS, Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud; ability to discuss landing zones, migration, connectivity, identity, backup, security, resiliency and cost/performance considerations.
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- Hybrid cloud architecture: Ability to position hybrid operating models, workload placement, migration waves, cloud management, governance, cost optimization and operational runbooks.
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- Automation: Exposure to Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell/Python scripting,



CloudFormation/Bicep, GitOps, CI/CD or equivalent automation tooling.
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- Operations transformation: Understanding of ITIL/ITSM, SRE, observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, event management, CMDB integration, AIOps and product-driven delivery models.
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- Proposal development: Ability to create solution notes, architecture diagrams, BoM inputs, SoW assumptions, RFP/RFI responses, effort assumptions and risk/constraint statements.
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- Customer communication: Strong listening, presentation, storytelling and documentation skills; ability to articulate customer pain points and map them to practical technology and commercial solutions.
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- Understanding of AI Factory concepts: Full-stack AI Factory infrastructure designed to build, train, tune, deploy and operate AI workloads at enterprise scale.
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- AI Factory Building Blocks: Exposure to AI-ready infrastructure building blocks.
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- Awareness of MLOps/LLMOps concepts including data pipelines, model lifecycle, model registry, inference endpoints, prompt/model evaluation, monitoring and governance.
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- Understanding of GPU virtualization, workload scheduling, data locality, storage throughput, network latency and resiliency considerations for AI workloads.
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- Agentic AI: Ability to translate IT operations problems into AI assistant and agent workflows, such as incident triage, root cause analysis, remediation, capacity insights, compliance checks, FinOps and knowledge automation.
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- Hands-on PoC or demo experience with GenAI or Agentic AI is preferred.
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Nice to Have

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- Experience in pre-sales or solution architecture
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- Awareness of multi-hypervisor environments
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- Basic understanding of security and cloud governance
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📌 Hybrid Cloud Presales Consultant (Noida)
🏢 HCLTech
📍 Noida