2 months ago
Base Salary
$208k - $324k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own Rubrik Professional Services’ global cloud architecture standards, including reference architectures, design patterns, guardrails, and anti-patterns.
- Serve as the final technical escalation point for cloud architecture decisions on strategic global engagements.
- Lead architecture and design for complex multi-region, multi-cloud, and multi-regulator customer environments.
- Advise CIO, CTO, Chief Architect, and CISO stakeholders and defend architecture decisions in customer review boards.
- Partner with Sales and Pre-Sales on technical validation, effort estimation, risk assessment, and strategic pursuits.
- Lead customer briefings and multi-day design workshops both onsite and remotely.
- Create reusable technical IP, deployment automation, design templates, decision trees, and delivery accelerators.
- Mentor Solutions Architects and senior consultants, define cloud competency standards, and support technical interviewing.
- Represent Professional Services at conferences, customer advisory boards, and in published technical material.
- Influence Product Management, Engineering, Support, and Customer Success on roadmap, supportability, and systemic technical issues.
Requirements
- 15+ years of overall experience, including 8+ years as a hands-on cloud architect at enterprise scale.
- Demonstrated ownership of multi-region, multi-account or multi-subscription cloud architecture in an enterprise or consulting/professional services organization.
- Expert-level AWS and Azure experience; GCP experience strongly preferred.
- Deep knowledge of compute, storage, networking, identity, encryption, key management, data protection, cyber resilience, RTO/RPO modeling, backup and recovery, and isolated or air-gapped recovery.
- Working fluency with cloud security and compliance frameworks in regulated industries.
- Strong automation experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Python, PowerShell, API-first integration, and CI/CD.
- Demonstrated influence without authority across global, matrixed organizations and multiple time zones.
- Executive-grade communication skills and experience building reusable technical IP.
- Ability to learn complex platforms to expert depth; prior Rubrik experience is not required.
- Kubernetes and containerized workload architecture experience is a plus.
- SaaS data protection experience with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, or similar platforms is a plus.
- Prior Principal, Distinguished, or Technical Director experience in vendor professional services or a major systems integrator is a plus.
- Professional or expert-level certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert are a plus.
- Established public technical presence through talks, writing, open source, or community leadership is a plus.
Benefits
- Eligible for bonus potential, equity, and benefits.
- Occasional travel is required.
- US location options include SF Bay Area, DC Metro, NYC, Seattle, other US offices, or remote locations, with compensation varying by work location.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Rubrik
Rubrik builds an enterprise data security and backup platform that protects and recovers data, identities, and workloads across on-prem, public clouds, and SaaS. Its Rubrik Security Cloud delivers backup, ransomware detection and recovery, and policy management, sold primarily by subscription with professional services. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBRK.