We are seeking an Enterprise Architect whose focus is on the whole: someone who aligns the technology landscape of enterprise customers with their business objectives. You will work with client leadership and technical teams to understand where a business is trying to go, assess the current-state landscape, and shape a coherent target-state architecture and roadmap that moves technology decisions in service of business outcomes. This is a role about synthesis and judgment. You are well versed across a broad range of technologies - cloud, containers, operating systems, platform components, and AI - but your value is in seeing how they fit together into a system that serves the enterprise, weighing trade-offs across cost, risk, operational fit, and time-to-value, and communicating those choices clearly to both executives and engineers. What matters most is the ability to think holistically about business-technology alignment and to reason credibly across the technology domains below. Key Responsibilities - Work with Mirantis customers, Mirantis colleagues, stakeholders, partners, vendors and other resources on improving the customer's experience - Assess and understand the customer's business strategy, drivers, and constraints - Current-state technology landscapes - Application portfolio - External drivers such as required certifications, existing corporate resources - Pain points and challenges - Collaborate with the customer to address shortcomings of the current state - Employ Mirantis products and experience to transform the existing landscape into a coherent, stable, secure, and future proof platform - For recommendations made provide defensible reasoning to help the customer understand why the recommendations have been made. - Become a trusted advisor of the customer - Work with Mirantis product to further development and eliminate shortcomings - Present architectures, roadmaps, and rationale to audiences ranging from customer executives to hands-on engineers. - Engage on-site with customers across regions as part of the discovery, design, and advisory process. Qualifications Education and Experience: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field - Extensive architecture and engineering experience across infrastructure or platform engineering, including customer-facing architecture or advisory experience Required Skills/Abilities: - A demonstrated ability to think about the enterprise as a whole - connecting technology decisions to business goals - rather than working only at the level of individual systems. - Broad, credible fluency across a range of technologies, including: - Private cloud platforms including OpenStack - Kubernetes-based container platforms - Multi-cluster management concepts and tooling - Workload requirements - VMware estate modernization - enough understanding of vSphere/VMware environments to advise enterprises on virtualization strategy and migration paths as they modernize toward open platforms. - Bare-metal provisioning and physical infrastructure lifecycle, including data center concepts - The components of a cloud or container platform and how they fit together. - At least one area of subject matter expertise (e.g. networking) - Strong solution orientation: "Find a way" - Experience with at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go) - Strong ability to communicate architecture and rationale to both business and technical audiences in both written and spoken formats - Ability and willingness to travel, primarily within the EU and US. Nice to have - Experience with Mirantis products and services - Familiarity with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) as part of a broader architecture picture. - Familiarity with Software-Defined Storage (SDS) as part of a broader architecture picture. - Workload orchestration - how modern platforms schedule, route, and manage workloads across clusters and environments. - Understanding of AI inference application requirements - Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks or methods (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent). - Exposure to hybrid or multi-cloud strategy and workload portability. - Additional European language skills (beyond the required English) Additional Information What does Mirantis offer you? - Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry; - Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies; - Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation; - Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued; - Professional development and training; - Attend conferences and working groups; - Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks; - Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan. 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