Cloud Native Senior Architect (UAE)
Pure Storage27 days ago
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesSenior
Responsibilities
- Support design and architecture workshops by gathering requirements, documenting environments, and developing implementation plans.
- Design, install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters and Portworx solutions using Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts.
- Deploy and operate Portworx Enterprise, PX-Backup, and PX-DR across OpenShift, Rancher, VKS, and other orchestrators in on-premises and cloud environments.
- Configure Portworx against FlashArray, FlashBlade, and equivalent storage platforms for performance, scale, and reliability.
- Support API and microservices deployments, day-2 operations, monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Act as the initial contact for Portworx break/fix support cases and Request for Enhancement requests.
- Coordinate with Portworx Support, Product Engineering, delivery architects, solution architects, project managers, certified delivery partners, and customer teams to resolve issues.
- Validate and test changes before production implementation, remediate testing issues, and provide customer training and knowledge transfer.
- Maintain project communication and contribute field experience to procedures, runbooks, and delivery templates.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments and operating containerized solutions.
- Proven DevOps experience and strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, with direct enterprise customer and production-environment experience.
- Deep Kubernetes deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting experience, including proficiency with OpenShift, Rancher, Mirantis, or another orchestrator.
- Linux system administration experience with RHEL, SLES, Debian, or Ubuntu, plus TCP/IP, DNS, and load-balancing fundamentals.
- Knowledge of software-defined storage concepts including NFS, block storage, and iSCSI, as well as highly available databases and modern data platforms.
- Experience with Jenkins, GitOps, Argo, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform IaaS environments.
- Familiarity with backup, disaster recovery, object storage, virtualization, version control, monitoring, logging, security fundamentals, and the OpenStorage SDK.
- Bash, Python, or Ruby scripting experience and familiarity with Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, or Elasticsearch are desirable.
- CKA or CKAD, cloud certifications, or Portworx certifications are desirable.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Must already be based and eligible to work in Dubai or Abu Dhabi and be willing to travel to customer sites across EMEA and company offices 30% or more when needed.
Benefits
- Contract engagement with scope and duration aligned to the Portworx EMEA delivery roadmap.
- Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
- Growth support, inclusive employee resource groups, and accessibility accommodations.
- Dubai or Abu Dhabi-based, onsite role with travel across EMEA as needed.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache AirflowApache CassandraApache KafkaArgo CDAWSAzureBashChefElasticsearchGitGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanagRPCHelmJenkinsKubernetesMongoDBMySQLOpenShiftPostgreSQLPrometheusPuppetPythonRancherRubySubversionTerraform
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).