Salary: Β£63,000 - 103,000 per year
Requirements:
- Experience in sales or sales management of infrastructure or cloud technology
- Experience managing large, complex enterprise accounts or equivalent
- Experience negotiating large, complex deals with a successful track record
- Experience with virtualization environments based on Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, and VMware products
- Experience with large-scale migration or data centre exit projects and key migration phases
- Preferred: Bachelors degree or above
- Quota-carrying sales experience, customer empathy, and technical credibility
- Ability to engage with C-suite executives, develop and execute account and territory plans, work independently, and own outcomes end to end
- Strong knowledge of SaaS and on-premises infrastructure, including Nutanix, VMware, and Hyper-V; colocation and hosting environments; and cloud platforms such as GCP and Azure
- Working understanding of Microsoft licensing and enterprise agreements
Responsibilities:
- Understand customer business objectives, industry dynamics, and competitive pressures to identify high-impact migration and modernisation opportunities.
- Generate and manage pipeline for AWS migration and modernisation opportunities in defined UK and Ireland verticals.
- Identify, qualify, and close deals with priority customers, positioning migration as an entry point to broader platform value.
- Own territory strategy and revenue targets across the transformation lifecycle; develop campaigns, routes to market, and opportunities in new customer segments.
- Build thought leadership through content, keynotes, executive roundtables, and other activities that communicate the transformation journey from migration through modernisation, data activation, and AI deployment.
- Develop executive-level narratives and commercial propositions that connect customer challenges and success metrics to migration, modernisation, data, AI, and automation outcomes.
- Position AWS AI and generative AI services and partner technologies as opportunities enabled by cloud migration.
- Drive upsell and expansion by delivering on commitments and demonstrating measurable customer value.
- Work with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Partner teams, Professional Services, and Product to assess software estates, build business cases, plan implementation, and close agreements.
- Develop co-sell motions with global systems integrators and strategic technology partners, and use the AWS partner ecosystem to support customer programmes.
- Respond to RFI and RFP requests with differentiated proposals tailored to customer needs.
- Maintain accurate pipeline and forecasts, and deliver predictable revenue against quota.
- Share customer insights with product, engineering, and partner teams to improve the AWS migration and modernisation experience.
- Travel to customer sites across the UK and Ireland as needed.
Technologies:
- AI
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloud
- GCP
- Hyper-V
- Support
- KVM
- Nutanix
- VMware
- Databricks
- DevOps
- Security
- Serverless
- Web
More:
We are AWS, a comprehensive cloud platform serving customers from startups to Global 500 companies. This role supports UK and Ireland customers with cloud migration and modernisation, with an approximate 80% customer-facing and 20% campaign and thought-leadership focus. We value diverse experiences and an inclusive culture supported by employee-led affinity groups, inclusion events, mentorship, career-development resources, and work-life flexibility. We are committed to equal opportunity and can provide workplace accommodations during the application and hiring process.
last updated 40 week of 2026
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