Senior Solutions Architect (VMware & AI Platform)

Job description

The role is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires fluency in Arabic and English. the employer Technology is a leading end-to-end hybrid cloud and AI solutions company. We are seeking a Senior Solutions Architect with deep expertise in VMware technologies, infrastructure modernisation, and AI platform enablement to support strategic sales opportunities across the Middle East region. In this presales-focused role, you will work closely with Sales, Solutions, and Delivery teams to design innovative solutions that address customers' datacentre modernisation, virtualisation, hybrid cloud, disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform transformation requirements. You will design and position AI platform solutions that layer GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), model serving/inference, and fine-tuning workloads above the hypervisor — for example VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA on VCF, NVIDIA vGPU and Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning, and AMD Instinct accelerators — orchestrated through Kubernetes (VMware Tanzu / TKG).

Requirements

• You should have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline
• alternatively, 10+ years of relevant experience in technical presales, consulting, or solution architecture. You should have extensive experience designing enterprise infrastructure and VMware-based solutions. You should have a strong understanding of datacentre and infrastructure modernisation strategies, including virtualisation, workload migration, consolidation, private cloud, and hybrid cloud adoption. You should have proven expertise across VMware technologies, including: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere, vCenter, NSX, VMware Aria Operations and Automation, and VMware Tanzu. You should have a practical understanding of AI platform architecture running above the hypervisor, including GPUaaS provisioning and multi-tenancy, GPU virtualisation and partitioning (NVIDIA vGPU/MIG, GPU passthrough), and accelerator options across NVIDIA and AMD Instinct.

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