AddressAbout 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. We’re a lean, high-achieving team made up of over 250 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.
The Role
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 network solutions with a strong background in cloud computing. This candidate will be able to drive technical solutions with engineering and business leaders across our customers and channel partner base. Using their technical background and the skills to train and enable Megaport partners to utilise Megaport services, they’ll also be driving direct technical discussions with both channel partners as well as 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.
- Support sales and partner opportunities for Megaport by creating and delivering content and demonstrations as the technical pre-sales arm of a territory pod.
- Develop and deliver product education and presentations for use by internal sales teams as well as for partner and channel affiliates.
- 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 products and solutions, competitive products, as well as the products of our key cloud services partners (Azure, AWS, Google, Oracle, Alibaba, IBM, Nutanix, SAP and others) and transfer such knowledge to the Sales and Marketing teams.
- Specify, design and integrate into customer environments Megaport Cloud Router and Megaport Virtual Edge products that focus on NVF (network function virtualization) and VNF (virtual network functions) including routing, SD-WAN, SASE, SSE and Firewall competencies.
- 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 sales team to drive partner relationships.
- Contribute to solution briefs, blogs, technical guides and training materials.
- Working with our customers to deploy and test restful API and Terraform integrations.
What We Offer
· Competitive Compensation Packages
· Flexible working environments
· Birthday Leave
· Generous study and training program + 5 days paid study leave
· Additional Leave via Purchased Annual Leave Scheme
· Health and Wellness Program
If you have any questions, please reach out to Megaport's Talent Acquisition Team at *******@megaport.com
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All applications will be treated in confidence.
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