Ramy Assem
Senior Cloud Solution Architect
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
16
16
Certifications
Work History
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - Presales
Giza Systems
08.2025 - Current
- Partner with sales teams to identify client needs, define technical strategies, and design high-level architectures for private, hybrid, and public cloud environments (VMware, Nutanix, OpenShift, GCP, AWS, Azure and OCI ).
- Formulate HLDs, solution sizing, and technical proposals aligned with customer business objectives and budget constraints.
- Develop Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to validate solution design, functionality, and performance before full-scale deployment.
- Engage with C-level executives, IT leaders, and technical stakeholders to present architectural visions, ROI, and competitive advantages of proposed solutions.
- Collaborate with engineering and delivery teams to ensure a seamless transition from presales to implementation.
- Stay ahead of emerging cloud technologies, architecture frameworks, and best practices to recommend innovative, future-proof solutions.
- Create solution architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical collateral to support sales enablement and proposal development.
- Work cross-functionally with product management, marketing, and partner teams to customize solutions and proposals for different industries.
- Assist in pricing and cost optimization strategies to ensure competitive yet profitable proposals.
Solution Architect
VAS Integrated Solutions
07.2024 - 08.2025
- Conduct SDDC consulting engagements following VMware's and Nutanix Consulting Methodology (Plan, Execute, Test, Document, Knowledge Transfer), ensuring the successful implementation of enterprise-level solutions.
- Gathered and analyzed use case requirements, designing and executing high and low-level enterprise implementations that aligned with customer needs and objectives.
- Served as a subject matter expert, providing guidance and best practices to enable the adoption of VMware Multi Cloud and Nutanix Multi Cloud solutions and drive customer success.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve existing documentation and consulting tools, contributing to the continuous improvement of knowledge and resources.
- Designing and planning the implementation of VMware's Multi Cloud portfolio and Nutanix's
- Creating and maintaining SOWs for desired customer requirements, providing sizing and PoCs
Senior Cloud Consultant
HCL Technologies
04.2020 - 04.2024
Senior Cloud Consultant - Professional Services
VMware
08.2023 - 04.2024
- Conduct SDDC consulting engagements following VMware's Consulting Methodology (Plan, Execute, Test, Document, Knowledge Transfer), ensuring the successful implementation of enterprise-level solutions.
- Gathered and analyzed use case requirements, designing and executing high and low-level enterprise implementations that aligned with customer needs and objectives.
- Notable Projects:
- Ministry of Defense Egypt - (Cloud Director, Aria Cloud Suite)
- Vodacom South Africa - (Cloud Director, Cloud Director Availability)
- Mercedes Benz Group - (Aria Cloud Suite)
- Egypt General Petroleum Corporation (Aria Cloud Suite)
- Orange Business Services France (Cloud Director)
- Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority Dubai “TDRA” (Container Service Extension)
- Detecon Al Saudia Co. Ltd (Cloud Director Advanced Extensions e.g. VCDA, OSE, ALP, CSE, Chargeback)
- Transport For London (Aria Operations Dashboards Customization)
- British Telecom Group (Cloud Director, Chargeback)
Cloud Consultant - Professional Services
VMware
01.2022 - 07.2023
Senior Service Delivery Engineer
Dell Technologies
04.2020 - 12.2022
- Led data migration projects for NAS solutions for BMW Global Managed Services Account, ensuring seamless transition and uninterrupted operation of storage solutions.
- Conducted comprehensive assessments of customer's source environment, including protocols used, hosted applications, and capacity requirements, to develop tailored migration plans.
- Monitored and reported progress of data migration plans at the project level, effectively communicating with relevant stakeholders.
- Developed Ansible playbooks for automation of Windows server configurations, updates, and virtual machine deployments/sizing/decommissioning, streamlining processes and improving efficiency.
- Coordinated VDI migrations for the Citrix environment of the BMW account globally, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption to end-users.
Service Delivery Engineer
Dell Technologies
08.2017 - 03.2020
Technical Support Engineer
EMC²
04.2017 - 07.2017
- Provides technical support and troubleshooting of encountered hardware and software issues
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Faculty of Information Engineering and Technology - Department of Networks
German University in Cairo
01.2014
General Secondary Certificate - Thanaweya Amma
Gezira Language School
01.2009
Skills
Core
Certification
GCP Cloud Solution Architect Professional
Timeline
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect - Presales
Giza Systems
08.2025 - Current
Solution Architect
VAS Integrated Solutions
07.2024 - 08.2025
Senior Cloud Consultant - Professional Services
VMware
08.2023 - 04.2024
Cloud Consultant - Professional Services
VMware
01.2022 - 07.2023
Senior Cloud Consultant
HCL Technologies
04.2020 - 04.2024
Senior Service Delivery Engineer
Dell Technologies
04.2020 - 12.2022
Service Delivery Engineer
Dell Technologies
08.2017 - 03.2020
Technical Support Engineer
EMC²
04.2017 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Faculty of Information Engineering and Technology - Department of Networks
German University in Cairo
General Secondary Certificate - Thanaweya Amma
Gezira Language School