Cloud Native Architect, Portworx - NY/NJ
Pure Storage2 months ago
Base 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
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage builds all-flash data storage systems and software for enterprises, including FlashArray and FlashBlade, and offers storage delivered as-a-service for on‑prem and cloud workloads. Its subscription model (Evergreen/Pure as‑a‑Service) supports databases, virtualization, analytics, and AI. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Pure is a public company listed on the NYSE (PSTG).