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Senior Lead Architect

Cohesity, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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We are looking for experienced architects who can develop detailed blueprints for successful customer deployments and create repeatable blueprints that become templates for all customer deployments. These will be used to develop our services practices and enable our delivery teams, partner teams, and customers to deploy our secondary storage solutions applications. The ideal candidate has considerable experience architecting, documenting, deploying, and enabling others.

These practices will utilize the architecture sold by our account teams to achieve customer-committed solutions. In addition to building these solutions, this role will also spend considerable time validating procedures in the field and teaching partners and customers how to apply these in their environment.

In this role, you will be working with engineering, systems engineers, tech marketing specialists, and customer support to build out professional services practices starting with the architectural blueprint that covers installation, integration, applications, migration, scripting (automation) to be used by delivery teams, partners and customers.

How You’ll Spend Your Time Here

Deliver architecture and professional services to Cohesity customers

Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams

Collaborate with Cohesity’s product solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements

Engage directly with customers to understand their organization needs and identify how Cohesity’s product features can best support their objectives

Write and validate deployment architectures

Collaborate with the Cohesity Product Solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer to the solution delivery team

Engage directly with customers to understand their organizational needs and identify how Cohesity's product features can best support their objectives

Maintain and update JIRA by creating and managing user stories to ensure alignment across product, engineering, and delivery teams

Define technical architecture including sizing and performance that meet customer requirements

Engage with teams to ensure Deployment Designs are successfully deployed

Create knowledge base articles related to practices and architectures

Develop best practices for the deployment designs that translate to project plans

Continually improve deliverables as we scale and release new features/products

Inspect deliverables for successes and improvements

Work with others to develop post-deployment documentation (run books, pre-deployment templates, etc.)

Convert deployment designs and best practices into a training curriculum

Deliver hands-on training in small group formats

Conduct beta testing of procedures for new deployment designs in the field

Provide feedback to Implement Engineers, Systems Engineers, and engineering on ways to improve the overall experience

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

10+ years of professional IT experience

Experience in the following areas is highly desirable: Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix Xen App/Desktop), Linux/Unix

Proficiency in Oracle and SQL with practical hands-on experience in both databases

Data Protection, Data Security and Data Management

Storage (Isilon, NetApp & Pure)

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance

Database Protection and Recovery

Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Scripting / Automation (Python, Ansible and ServiceNow)

Visio or equivalent application

Excellent communication and project-related skills

Strong verbal communication/presentation skills

Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation

The ability to teach others and make them successful

Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills

The ability to manage projects and to drive to a deadline

Travel: > 25%

EEO and Benefits Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. The compensation ranges and benefits are described in the job posting and are determined based on various factors including location and experience.

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