Cloud Native Architect, Portworx - NY/NJ
Pure StorageBase Salary
$156k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide pre-sales technical and business expertise to customers running stateful applications in containers.
- Help customers automate Day 2 data management workflows.
- Present and explain Portworx technologies and simplified solutions to complex customer problems.
- Advise on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, Linux, data platforms, databases, and enterprise application modernization.
- Support co-selling partners and collaborate across the customer and partner ecosystem.
- Provide thought leadership and challenge existing approaches to improve customer outcomes.
- Coach and influence team behavior through leadership rather than formal authority.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a customer-facing senior-level technical architect.
- At least 5 years of Linux administration and/or Linux development experience with an industry-recognized administration-level or higher certification.
- At least 3 years of Kubernetes administration experience with a KCNA or higher certification.
- Certification-level fluency in OpenShift, Rancher, or another Kubernetes orchestration environment.
- Certification-level fluency in cloud IaaS environments such as VMware, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and OpenStack.
- Certification-level fluency in DevOps concepts and hands-on experience with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD pipeline applications.
- Certification-level fluency in data engineering, big data, database operations, delivery, and operational services.
- Understanding of data platform technologies for highly available business applications across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Understanding of the enterprise application development lifecycle and the impact of container platforms.
- Ability to present a strategic vision, simplify complex problems, improve solutions, and challenge the status quo.
- Strong communication, presentation, customer engagement, leadership, coaching, collaboration, and continuous-improvement abilities.
- Willingness and ability to travel regionally up to 60% as needed.
Benefits
- Remote role with regional travel of up to 60% as needed
- Flexible time off
- Wellness resources
- Company-sponsored team events
- Employee Resource Groups and inclusive workplace initiatives
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About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever. Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure’s commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers, or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide through its environmental sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.