At CDW, we make it happen, together. Trust, connection, and commitment are at the heart of how we work together to deliver for our customers. It’s why we’re coworkers, not just employees. Coworkers who genuinely believe in supporting our customers and one another. We collectively forge our path forward with a level of commitment that speaks to who we are and where we’re headed. We’re proud to share our story and Make Amazing Happen at CDW. Job Summary Acting as the first point of contact for data center solutions and transition of opportunities to proper resources. The Solutions Advisor - Data Center strongly aligns to sales teams to drive solutions growth objectives. The Solutions Advisor - Data Center possesses technical expertise with advanced level knowledge within their discipline and intermediate knowledge across all disciplines. The Solutions Advisor - Data Center develops and maintains strategic relationships with Account Managers and Solutions Specialists from other practices and is seen as a trusted partner to grow business. What You Will Do - Maintains advanced knowledge of solutions within data center discipline in order to Discover, Qualify, Recommend, Compare/Contrast products and solutions - Explains features, benefits and technical specifications of primary, secondary, emerging and complementary data center solutions and services - Maintains Intermediate level knowledge on Hybrid Infrastructure, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Colocation, Servers, Storage, Virtualization, Power/Cooling, Public and Private Cloud, Managed Infrastructure, and all other technology disciplines - Contributes to the sales team’s knowledge base and readily shares information with other Advisors and Account Managers - Attends mandatory partner and specialist trainings, as well as independent learning through online trainings, self-study, labs, and additional certifications - Maintain strategic relationships with CDW’s data center partners - Meet regularly with other ITS coworkers to collaborate and discuss go to market strategy - Attain role level certifications both within their focused and adjacent disciplines - Customer Facing Engagements with customers to uncover their business needs and relevant solutions - Discusses solutions at a conceptual level with customers and potential customers - Through discovery with customers, uncovers related solutions beyond the original data center scope - Explores additional solutions opportunities through services agreements including hosted, managed, and cloud - Participates in CDW events on business-focused data center solution presentations for customers and prospects delivered via web-based tools (e.g., WebEx, Teams, etc.) - Provides Account Managers with best practices and guidance on how to most effectively uncover and communicate solutions and services opportunities - Counsels Account Managers on foundational data center knowledge and competitive landscape - Explains features, benefits, and technical specifications of advanced products and solutions within discipline - Explains conceptually how technologies are installed and implemented for customers - Follows up and responds to questions regarding registrations, pending deals, and escalation needs - Registers and manages customer proposals in partner registration systems - Reviews quotes and orders for accuracy What We Expect of You - Associate’s Degree or equivalent work experience - Knowledge and proven success of engaging and working with sales teams - Ability to execute on territory goals and metrics - Ability to adapt and change to the business needs of the practice and team coverage model - Strong oral and written communication skills - Ability to think creatively and come up with proactive ideas that will increase sales - Strong passion for learning and teaching others - Strong problem solving skills - Motivated and self-starting - Must be able to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with management, peers and coworkers - Current CDW Coworker, is a plus - Bachelor’s Degree, is a plus - Proven success and experience selling data center solutions and services, is a plus - At least 2 of the following Technical Accreditations and/or Certifications: CompTIA Server+, CompTIA Cloud+, HPE CDCP, Dell EMC DCA / DCS, Nutanix Certified Associate, NetApp NCTA, or VMware VCTA, is a plus - Pay range: $ - $ depending on experience and skill set Base pay range: $52,000 - $95,300 depending on experience and skill set Annual bonus target of 25% subject to terms and conditions of plan Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/ Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner’s mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools. We value adopting AI as a partner, openness to experimentation, and a shared interest in learning together on AI. Our goal is to create a culture where AI enhances—not replaces—human creativity and decision-making. You don’t need to be an expert today; what matters is your readiness to explore, adapt, and grow with us as we integrate AI responsibly and effectively into our work. Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice. We make technology work so people can do great things.     CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. A Fortune 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Index, CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Together, we unite. Together, we win. Together, we thrive. CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.

• Lead the development of technical solutions for federal, state, and local RFPs, RFQs, and white papers. • Work closely with Client Solutions Managers, Proposal Managers and Writers, and Subject Matter Experts to craft solutions aligned with customer challenges, mission needs, and contract requirements. • Architect secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that integrate Nava’s capabilities. • Ensure all solutions comply with government security, accessibility, and interoperability requirements (FedRAMP, FISMA, Section 508). • Balance compliance, feasibility, and innovation to develop winning technical approaches. • Author and refine technical sections for proposals, including solution narratives, architecture diagrams, staffing approaches, and cost justifications. • Develop technical white papers, concept papers, and capability statements to support capture efforts. • Leverage AI/LLMs and automation tools to streamline technical writing while ensuring quality and compliance. • Participate in color team reviews to refine solution approaches and strengthen proposal responses. • In collaboration with Technical Writer(s), maintain a repository of reusable technical content to improve future proposal efficiency. • Collaborate with business development and delivery teams to shape Nava’s go-to-market strategy and identify emerging technical needs in the government IT space. • When appropriate, engage with government clients, partners, and subcontractors to align solutions with contract objectives and teaming arrangements. • Represent Nava’s technical capabilities in pre-solicitation engagements, industry days, and client meetings. • Support oral presentations and solution demonstrations for competitive procurements. • Stay up to date on emerging technologies, AI advancements, cybersecurity best practices, and government IT trends. • Evaluate new tools and methodologies to enhance solutioning efficiency, compliance, and innovation. • Contribute to internal knowledge-sharing initiatives and help refine Nava’s technical solutioning playbook.

• Helping our customers deploy cloud-native software stacks, such as NVIDIA AI, to embed guidelines in machine learning operations • Collaborating closely with infrastructure admins, data scientists, and ML engineers to deploy tools like NVIDIA Run:ai and NVIDIA Mission Control • Integrating NVIDIA software into customers’ existing ML ops environments and developing scripts to streamline these processes • Diagnosing and resolving customer issues within sophisticated cloud-native environments, applying profiling and analysis tools to improve deep learning model performance • Working with internal collaborators, including Pre-Sales Solution Engineers, Account Managers, and Product teams, to understand business requirements and provide technical insights • Developing new tools and scripts to facilitate seamless integration with other Data Science tools

As a Solutions Architect, Cloud, you will work with Mission Cloud’s customers to develop strategic solutions leveraging the AWS portfolio. You will work with our Project Management and Cloud Engineering teams to provide Mission’s Professional Services to the accounts and projects to which you’re aligned. As a Cloud Solution Architect you’ll be the primary point of contact for your accounts. Our Cloud Solution Architects are responsible for holding regular consulting sessions to build a roadmap for further optimization, automation, and resiliency while the hand-on engineers execute the road map items driving world class outcomes. This position is 100% remote. Responsibilities - Consult with multiple clients simultaneously to understand business and technical needs - Be a trusted advisor to assigned clients; help align customer expectations with best practices - Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals - Work with clients and Project Managers to set expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines - Identify areas for cost savings through options such as autoscaling, right-sizing, and elimination of waste within the customer’s AWS environments - Identify security gaps and develop best practice recommendations to help strengthen client security posture - Document and present recommendations to customers, including senior leadership - Translate customer requirements into LOE estimates, design documents and keep project tracking boards up to date - Provide guidance to Cloud Engineers as they implement customer roadmaps - Quality check engineering work; ensure top quality work and customer satisfaction - Train customers in management and maintenance of new or upgraded environments - Support Presales Cloud Solutions Architects in proposal design and positioning - Document time spent on customer activities; record activities daily in Jira with weekly timecard submissions in Mavenlink - Mentor Cloud Engineers Requirements - Experience working in a customer-facing consulting role - Experience developing project roadmaps, LOE estimates, and design documents - Ability to lead customer facing projects, assigning work to teams, and quality checking engineering work - Ability to translate technical requirements to a non-technical audience - Ability to present solutions to customers, overcoming objectives, and creating consensus - Ability to deploy AWS infrastructure using IAC tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation - Ability to build CI pipelines and automation (build, test, performance) - Ability to design and build containerization solutions (infrastructure, pipelines, automation) using docker (dockerfiles, ECS, ECS Fargate) or kubernetes (manifests, helm and deployment tooling, KOPS, EKS, EKS, or Fargate) - Understanding of AWS security controls, network boundary controls and related toolsets - Knowledge of AWS’s Well-Architected Framework - Ability to work with one or more scripting languages - Occasional off-hours support, depending on client's need - AWS Professional-level Certification (required within 6 months of employment) Benefits & Compensation - Access to health, vision and dental insurance with options 100% covered by Mission Cloud for employee and their dependents - Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare & Dependent Care) - Generous Paid Time Off (FlexPTO, parental leave, volunteering time off) - Reproductive health benefits - Pet insurance - 401k matching program - Life insurance paid by Mission Cloud - An internal department dedicated to helping team members on their career path - Inclusive work environment with several Employee Resource Groups Placement within the range is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to knowledge, skills, and ability as evaluated during the interview process. The compensation range for the base salary of this role is: $120,000 - $155,000 Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Our company leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tool to enhance and streamline various aspects of the hiring process. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to the use of AI technologies in activities such as resume screening, interview scheduling, note taking and other administrative functions. Please note that all hiring decisions are made by human reviewers in compliance with applicable laws and best practices. About Mission Cloud Mission Cloud is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner and MSP. Clients depend on us to expertly and securely architect, migrate, manage, and optimize their cloud environments. Mission Cloud’s team of AWS Certified Solutions Architects and DevOps Engineers are ready to help you harness the full power of the AWS cloud to transform your business and operations.