Cohesity Inc.
Senior Solution Architect - Security | Santa Clara, CA - USA (Office)
Cohesity Inc., Santa Clara, California, us, 95053
Overview
Cohesity
opens in a new tab is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior Staff Security Solutions Engineer to join our Security Center of Excellence (SCOE). This role is ideal for a security evangelist who can bridge the gap between technology, security strategy, and field enablement. As the representative of the SCOE team, you will be hands-on lead and drive thought leadership, building trust with customers and partners, and enabling our sales teams to accelerate cyber resilience adoption. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, empowering the field with the right security solutions, architectures, and best practices. How you'll spend your time here
Security Evangelism & Thought Leadership Act as the primary evangelist for Cohesity’s security strategy, solutions, and vision. Represent the SCOE at conferences, webinars, partner events, and customer briefings. Publish blogs, whitepapers, reference architecture, and thought leadership content on modern security trends and solutions. Sales Enablement & Field Support Partner with the Worldwide Field Organization to drive security-focused sales plays, value drivers, and customer outcomes. Enable Account Executives, Sales Engineers, Field Technical Directors, and Partners through training, workshops, and collateral. Support strategic customer engagements, proofs of concept, and executive briefings. Create high-quality security collateral, including technical deep-dive slides, best practice guides, and reference architectures, while enabling the field and customers to utilize these resources. Security Solution Expertise Hands-on and lead conversations on threat hunting, sensitive data classification, DSPM, and data protection. Guide customers on cyber resilience, ransomware recovery, security integrations, backup strategies, and orchestration frameworks. Collaborate with product teams to influence the security roadmap and ensure alignment with customer needs. Cross-Functional Leadership Act as the voice of the field within the SCOE, bringing insights from customers and partners back to engineering, product, and marketing teams. Drive the creation of security artifacts—security narrative, technical deep dives, reference architecture, partner (security) sales playbooks, competitive positioning, and technical content. What we'd love to talk to you if you have many of the following
Technical Expertise Strong knowledge of data security, DSPM, data classification, threat hunting, and modern security frameworks. Experience with data protection technologies, backup & recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery orchestration. Familiarity with cloud security, ransomware defense strategies, and zero-trust principles. Evangelism & Enablement Demonstrated expertise as a technical evangelist, field enabler, or security subject matter expert (SME). Strong ability to communicate complex security concepts clearly to both technical teams and executive leadership through compelling storytelling. Skilled in developing sales enablement materials and leading impactful, security-centric sessions. Adept at creating security collateral to support sales teams, partners, and customers. Proficient in facilitating tabletop exercises, cyber resilience training, and driving security partner integrations. Collaboration & Leadership Ability to influence and lead across multiple teams—engineering, product, sales, and marketing. Strategic thinker who can balance deep technical expertise with business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making. Preferred Qualifications
15+ years of experience in security engineering, solution architecture, or related roles. Hands-on experience with data security, DSPM (Data Security Posture Management), sensitive data classification, DLP, threat hunting, and ransomware defense. Deep understanding of backup & recovery, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and orchestration frameworks. Familiarity with cloud-native security architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS ecosystems Working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, and EDR platforms for detection and response. Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, or equivalent are a strong plus. Proven track record in customer-facing roles supporting enterprise accounts. Exceptional storytelling and evangelism skills to engage both technical and executive stakeholders Pay Range
$176,000.00-$220,000.00 Note : The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment. Benefits
Healthcare coverage for you and your family Paid parental leave Flexible paid time off Additional company-wide days off throughout the year A robust wellness program Continuous learning opportunities And a competitive salary and additional benefits package Legal notices
Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws and other notices: This position has a starting pay range as listed above. Actual salary depends on factors including skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time. Life at Cohesity Want to learn more about Life at Cohesity and our RADIO Values? Read more from our employees here. Notice to external recruiters and staffing agencies
Cohesity does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiters or staffing agencies. Any submission of an unsolicited resume to our resume database, directly to Cohesity hiring managers, or by other means will be considered gratis and no recruiting fee will be paid if an unsolicited candidate from a third-party recruiter is subsequently hired. Fees will be paid ONLY where an external recruiter has an executed service contract in place with Cohesity and resumes have been solicited by our Talent Acquisition team in connection to a specific job opening. Life at Cohesity (continued)
We strive to have a parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our employees (and their families) is the right thing to do.
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Cohesity
opens in a new tab is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior Staff Security Solutions Engineer to join our Security Center of Excellence (SCOE). This role is ideal for a security evangelist who can bridge the gap between technology, security strategy, and field enablement. As the representative of the SCOE team, you will be hands-on lead and drive thought leadership, building trust with customers and partners, and enabling our sales teams to accelerate cyber resilience adoption. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, empowering the field with the right security solutions, architectures, and best practices. How you'll spend your time here
Security Evangelism & Thought Leadership Act as the primary evangelist for Cohesity’s security strategy, solutions, and vision. Represent the SCOE at conferences, webinars, partner events, and customer briefings. Publish blogs, whitepapers, reference architecture, and thought leadership content on modern security trends and solutions. Sales Enablement & Field Support Partner with the Worldwide Field Organization to drive security-focused sales plays, value drivers, and customer outcomes. Enable Account Executives, Sales Engineers, Field Technical Directors, and Partners through training, workshops, and collateral. Support strategic customer engagements, proofs of concept, and executive briefings. Create high-quality security collateral, including technical deep-dive slides, best practice guides, and reference architectures, while enabling the field and customers to utilize these resources. Security Solution Expertise Hands-on and lead conversations on threat hunting, sensitive data classification, DSPM, and data protection. Guide customers on cyber resilience, ransomware recovery, security integrations, backup strategies, and orchestration frameworks. Collaborate with product teams to influence the security roadmap and ensure alignment with customer needs. Cross-Functional Leadership Act as the voice of the field within the SCOE, bringing insights from customers and partners back to engineering, product, and marketing teams. Drive the creation of security artifacts—security narrative, technical deep dives, reference architecture, partner (security) sales playbooks, competitive positioning, and technical content. What we'd love to talk to you if you have many of the following
Technical Expertise Strong knowledge of data security, DSPM, data classification, threat hunting, and modern security frameworks. Experience with data protection technologies, backup & recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery orchestration. Familiarity with cloud security, ransomware defense strategies, and zero-trust principles. Evangelism & Enablement Demonstrated expertise as a technical evangelist, field enabler, or security subject matter expert (SME). Strong ability to communicate complex security concepts clearly to both technical teams and executive leadership through compelling storytelling. Skilled in developing sales enablement materials and leading impactful, security-centric sessions. Adept at creating security collateral to support sales teams, partners, and customers. Proficient in facilitating tabletop exercises, cyber resilience training, and driving security partner integrations. Collaboration & Leadership Ability to influence and lead across multiple teams—engineering, product, sales, and marketing. Strategic thinker who can balance deep technical expertise with business outcomes. Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making. Preferred Qualifications
15+ years of experience in security engineering, solution architecture, or related roles. Hands-on experience with data security, DSPM (Data Security Posture Management), sensitive data classification, DLP, threat hunting, and ransomware defense. Deep understanding of backup & recovery, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and orchestration frameworks. Familiarity with cloud-native security architectures across AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS ecosystems Working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, and EDR platforms for detection and response. Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, or equivalent are a strong plus. Proven track record in customer-facing roles supporting enterprise accounts. Exceptional storytelling and evangelism skills to engage both technical and executive stakeholders Pay Range
$176,000.00-$220,000.00 Note : The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment. Benefits
Healthcare coverage for you and your family Paid parental leave Flexible paid time off Additional company-wide days off throughout the year A robust wellness program Continuous learning opportunities And a competitive salary and additional benefits package Legal notices
Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws and other notices: This position has a starting pay range as listed above. Actual salary depends on factors including skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time. Life at Cohesity Want to learn more about Life at Cohesity and our RADIO Values? Read more from our employees here. Notice to external recruiters and staffing agencies
Cohesity does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiters or staffing agencies. Any submission of an unsolicited resume to our resume database, directly to Cohesity hiring managers, or by other means will be considered gratis and no recruiting fee will be paid if an unsolicited candidate from a third-party recruiter is subsequently hired. Fees will be paid ONLY where an external recruiter has an executed service contract in place with Cohesity and resumes have been solicited by our Talent Acquisition team in connection to a specific job opening. Life at Cohesity (continued)
We strive to have a parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our employees (and their families) is the right thing to do.
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