Pre-Sales Solution Engineer (Infra & Modernization)

The Mission

You are the Architect of the Future . Most businesses are stuck in on-premise data centers or legacy VMs. Your job is to show them the path to the cloud. You will design secure, scalable, and cost-effective "Landing Zones" on the Google Cloud Platform and convince CIOs / CTOs why GCP is the best home for their applications.

What You Will Do

Migration Strategy : Assess client legacy environments (VMware / Hyper-V) and propose the right migration path : Lift & Shift (Rehost) vs. Modernize (Refactor to Containers).

Landing Zone Design : Architect the foundational setup—Organization policy, Resource Hierarchy, IAM, and Network Topology (Hub & Spoke)—ensuring the client starts on the right foot.

Sizing & Costing : Master the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator . You will translate a client's physical server inventory into a precise GCP Bill of Materials (BOM), optimizing for Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) and Spot Instances.

Technical Objection Handling : When a CISO asks, "Is my data secure?" or a CFO asks, "Why is the cloud expensive?", you provide the technical and financial answers that close the deal.

The Tech Stack (Your Arsenal)

You need strong proficiency in the "Core Infrastructure" pillars :

Compute : Compute Engine (GCE), Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE).

Modernization : Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Anthos (Google Distributed Cloud).

Networking : VPC Design, Shared VPC, Cloud Interconnect / VPN, Cloud Armor (WAF).

Migration Tools : StratoZone (Assessment), Migrate to Virtual Machines (M4VM).

IaC : Basic understanding of Terraform for infrastructure automation.

Who You Are

The SysAdmin Turned Consultant : You likely started as a System Administrator or DevOps Engineer and realized you enjoy talking to humans as much as servers.

The Network Savvy : You know the difference between a Public and Private Subnet, and you can explain CIDR ranges without blinking.

The Certified Pro : Google Professional Cloud Architect certification is highly preferred. Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) is mandatory.

The FinOps Mindset : You don't just provision resources; you provision them cheaply. You understand how to architect for cost-efficiency.

Why Join Zelar?

Large Scale Projects : Work on complex migrations involving hundreds of VMs and intricate hybrid-connectivity setups.

Training Budget : We support your journey to get certified (PCA, Security, Network Specializations).

Sales Commission : Unlike pure delivery roles, you share in the success of the deals you help close.