Aries L.
Cloud Solution Manager @VIAVI Solutions
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WORK HISTORY
Cloud Solution Manager @VIAVI Solutions
London, GB
Collaborated with leading public cloud, networking, firewall, and telecom vendors to define best-practice solution architectures and validation frameworks across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud.• Acted as a customer-facing Solutions Architect, supporting pre-sales engagements for global enterprise customers across the US, EU, UK, and APAC, including international and on-site engagements.• Designed end-to-end infrastructure and networking solutions, producing High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLD/LLD) to enable successful delivery by engineering teams.• Delivered executive-level presentations to C-suite and senior stakeholders, including solution architecture workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts across orchestration and management platforms.• Led and supported RFI/RFP and Statement of Work responses for strategic enterprise accounts, ensuring technically robust and commercially viable solutions.• Partnered with global sales teams to develop go-to-market strategies, supporting major customer pursuits and shaping winning technical and commercial approaches.• Acted as a technical advisor in large-scale customer opportunities, collaborating with cross-regional sales and engineering teams to define solution scope and delivery approach.• Supported revenue forecasting and reporting activities, contributing to quarterly business reviews and executive-level reporting.• Owned product and solution architecture responsibilities for VIAVI’s Automation Management & Orchestration System (VAMOS), driving transformation from on-premises deployments to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.• Designed centralized automation and orchestration platforms leveraging containerized microservices, Kubernetes-based high-availability architectures, and CI/CD pipelines.• Provided architectural input into API and service design (REST/gRPC) to support scalable automation, observability, and AI-enabled capabilities such as log analysis and root cause identification.
EDUCATION
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bachelor of Computing (Hons), Computing
ABOUT ARIES L.
Pre-Sales Solutions Architecture & Consulting – Customer-facing technical engagement, requirements discovery, solution design, RFI/RFP leadership, and proof-of-concept delivery across enterprise accounts.• Networking & Infrastructure Architecture – Enterprise networking design across HPE/Juniper, Cisco, and multi-vendor environments, including data centre, campus, SD-WAN, and hybrid cloud connectivity.• Cloud, Hybrid & Platform Architecture – Designing and integrating hybrid and multi-cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud, aligned with networking, security, and infrastructure services.• Architecture Documentation & Delivery Enablement – Creation of High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLD/LLD) to enable consistent post-sales delivery by engineering teams.• Executive & Technical Communication – Delivering C-level presentations, architecture workshops, solution demonstrations, and whiteboard sessions for enterprise and service provider customers.• Partner, MSP & Service Provider Engagement – Working closely with global sales, channel, and delivery teams to scope solutions, support major customer opportunities, and co-develop winning technical strategies.• Platform, Automation & Orchestration Expertise – Experience with large-scale orchestration platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, and Kubernetes-based architectures supporting automation and observability use cases.• Infrastructure & Systems Expertise – Networking, firewalls, SD-WAN, VMware, SAN/NAS storage, HCI, cloud networking, API integration, and large-scale orchestration systems.
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