Senior Solution Architect

About the role

Cohesity, an AI-powered data security company, is looking for experienced architects to develop detailed architecture and transition blueprints that guide customer deployments, migrations and platform transformations. You will create repeatable deployment blueprints that become templates for delivery teams, partner teams and customers, and validate them in the field while teaching partners and customers how to apply them.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver architecture designs and professional services to Cohesity customers
• Lead customer transition initiatives from assessment through deployment, acting as technical authority for migration strategy, workload prioritization and execution planning
• Identify technical, operational, security and business risks and establish transition plans before implementation
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer architects, infrastructure teams and executives, and review design deviations, implementation decisions and deployment readiness milestones
• Build relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams, and present architecture recommendations, deployment strategies and technical risks to stakeholders
• Develop solution designs including architecture diagrams, sizing specifications, integration requirements and risk assessments
• Provide field feedback to Product Management and Engineering on deployment challenges, feature gaps, automation opportunities and customer requirements
• Help define technical architecture, ensure designs are deployed successfully, and develop post-deployment documentation such as run books and pre-deployment templates

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of professional IT experience
• Excellent communication and project management skills, strong written documentation skills, and self-starting organization and time management
• Ability to manage projects and drive to deadlines
• Expected travel of 50%

Required skills

• Preferred: backup products (NetBackup), compute and virtualization (VMware, vSphere, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, OpenShift), databases (Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, SAP), storage (NAS, SAN, S3, NFS, SMB)
• Preferred: networking (VLANs, routing, firewall, DNS, NTP), security (AD, LDAP, SSO, RBAC, encryption, ransomware recovery), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), disaster recovery and scripting/automation (Python, Ansible, ServiceNow)