Cloud Sales Engineer

As a Sales Engineer in our Cloud Division, you’ll be the go-to technical advisor partnering with our Sales team to design secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that drive real business outcomes. You’ll play a critical role in the pre-sales process by understanding customer needs, architecting solutions, and ensuring seamless hand-offs to implementation while working with cutting-edge cloud platforms and technologies. 

If you thrive at the intersection of technology and customer engagement, this is the role for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with Account Executives to qualify opportunities and design tailored cloud solutions aligned with customer needs.
• Lead technical discovery sessions to gather requirements, uncover challenges, and recommend optimal architectures.
• Create solution diagrams, proposals, and TCO/ROI analyses to clearly articulate business value.
• Deliver product demos, Proof of Concepts (POCs), and performance benchmarks to validate solutions.
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure smooth solution delivery.
• Architect solutions to work with our OpenStack offering, understanding infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Recommend best practices in automation, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Incorporate monitoring, observability, and security into all solution designs.
• Conduct workshops and enablement sessions to help customers maximize adoption and satisfaction.
• Share customer insights to influence product roadmaps, sales strategies, and technical marketing initiatives.

What You'll Get:

• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance options
• Customizable 401(k) plans that include company matching
• Reimbursement for tuition, certifications, or professional memberships
• Dedicated paid time off to volunteer in your community
• Opportunities for professional growth through company programs
• Recognition for your years of service
• Wellness initiatives
• Profit Sharing twice yearly

What We’re Looking For: 

• 5+ years in Solutions Engineering, Solution Architecture, or Pre-Sales roles within cloud, hosting, or SaaS.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms: OpenStack preferred, plus AWS, Azure, GCP. 
• Knowledge in virtualization, networking, high availability VPNs and firewalls.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm), IaC/automation (Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, GitHub Actions).
• Security and compliance knowledge including IAM, encryption, compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and cloud pricing models.  
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business value for executives and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills with the ability to lead technical discussions.
• AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, GCP Cloud Architect, or OpenStack certifications are a plus.
• Familiarity with AI agents, MCP servers, and leveraging AI within cloud infrastructure.

Location: 

• Remote

The annual salary for this position is $60,000+ base plus bonus opportunity. 

About Us:

Founded in 2001, InMotion Hosting is a privately held provider of traditional web hosting and ultramodern XaaS solutions. InMotion Hosting has set itself apart from the competition with hundreds of thousands of customers, a permanent commitment to top support, and ongoing successes in technological innovation. These are exciting times at InMotion as we expand our brands to service the next generation of customer needs. 

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