Solutions Architect

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Babble

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2001

🤝 B2B

🔒 Cybersecurity

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $9M Private equity on 2015-01

B2B • Cybersecurity • Telecommunications

Babble is a UK-based B2B technology services firm that helps small and mid-sized businesses modernize and manage their core technology. It provides Microsoft 365 and Azure integration, cloud and IT managed services, cybersecurity assessments and ongoing protection, unified communications and PSTN migration support, and customer experience platform work. Babble focuses on making fragmented technology estates work as a single Core Operating System, improving security, performance, and AI readiness.

📋 Description

• Lead hands-on implementation on complex, high-risk, or multi-domain projects • Deploy and configure Azure Virtual Desktop, complex network architectures, multi-tenant security configurations, hybrid identity environments, and large-scale migrations • Produce High-Level Designs and Low-Level Designs across Modern Workplace, Cyber Security, Network, and Backup/DR domains • Author Statements of Work defining scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, acceptance criteria, and milestones • Provide technical guidance and design assurance throughout delivery • Review implementation progress against HLD/LLD specifications and validate configuration decisions • Act as a senior technical resource for the Professional Services team • Support pre-sales activities including scoping calls, solution qualification, feasibility assessments, and proposal design input • Conduct customer technical design reviews and secure solution sign-off • Define and maintain technical standards, deployment checklists, configuration baselines, and design templates • Validate UAT results and technical acceptance • Mentor and develop Level 1 and Level 2 engineers • Collaborate with Service Desk, NOC, and managed services teams on operational supportability • Contribute to vendor relationship management and evaluate new product capabilities • Identify and communicate project risks, design constraints, and technical dependencies • Lead post-implementation design reviews and capture lessons learned • Maintain expert-level technical skills and advanced vendor certifications across the solution portfolio

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience of solution design and delivery across all four domains (Modern Workplace, Cyber Security, Backup/DR and Networking) and Azure • Demonstrable design authorship (High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs and Statements of Work) • Pre-sales technical experience • Track record of mentoring and raising the technical capability of a delivery team • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), or its current Microsoft successor certification (desired) • Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100), or its current Microsoft successor certification (desired) • Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102), or its current Microsoft successor certification (desired) • Sophos Certified Architect for Sophos Firewall and Sophos Central Endpoint/Server, with corresponding Sophos Certified Engineer certifications as prerequisites (desired) • Acronis Certified Engineer (Cyber Protect) (desired) • Mimecast Certified Product Professional, Advanced level (Email Security, Cloud Gateway) (desired) • PRINCE2 7th Edition Practitioner or equivalent project management certification (advantageous) • ITIL 4 Foundation or ITIL Version 5 Foundation (advantageous) • CISSP or equivalent senior security certification; CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) acceptable foundational alternative (advantageous) • CrowdStrike Falcon certifications such as CCFA or CCFR, and familiarity with Falcon Complete (advantageous) • Stable internet connection • Suitable home work setup with a desk and chair in a quiet space • Solution to mitigate loadshedding; working from a public space is not acceptable

🏖️ Benefits

• Risk cover; covering Life Cover, Critical Illness Cover, funeral benefits and some Disability benefits • 22 days holiday Balance PLUS UK Bank Holidays • Increased annual leave based on length of service • 5% allowance based on basic salary that can be towards Medical Aid • UPS provided to assist with load shedding (2-4hrs power for a laptop) • Babble issued laptop • Annual Company Celebrations • Home-based working arrangement