Cloud Native Architect

Responsibilities

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

The Pure Storage Cloud Architecture team is responsible for providing pre-sales deep technical and business expertise to customers who want to run stateful applications in containers and automate “Day 2” data management workflows.

Qualifications

WHAT IT TAKES, TECHNICALLY:

5+ years experience as a customer facing senior-level technical architect. 
Charismatic, confident, and likable self-starter with a track record of success on stage, in the spotlight, and with customers. 
Team oriented leader that is able to coach and drive desired behavior through influence rather than title. 
5+ years of Linux Administration and/or Linux development experience with an industry recognized administration-level or higher certification. 
3+ years of Kubernetes Administration experience and a KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) or above certification. 
Certification-level fluency in OpenShift, Rancher, or other Kubernetes orchestration environment. 
Certification-level fluency in Cloud IaaS environments such as VMware, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack. 
Certification-level fluency with DevOps concepts and hands-on experience with associated tools, such as; Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD pipeline applications. 
Certification-level fluency in data engineering, big data, and database operations, delivery and operational services. 
Demonstrable understanding of data platform technologies as they relate to highly available business applications on-prem, hybrid, and in the cloud 
Demonstrable understanding of the enterprise application development lifecycle and container platforms’ effect on it. 
Demonstrable ability to see and present ‘the big picture’ e.g. thought leadership, offer solutions to improve upon it, and challenge the status quo when it is not in alignment with or in the best interest of desired customer outcomes. 
Demonstrable ability to distill complex problems into a simplified vision that drives customer interest in Pure technologies 
Strong bias for continuous improvement both personally and professionally. 
Ability to travel as needed regionally (up-to 60%)

Specialty Skills

3+ years of financial services experience