YOUR ROLEWe are seeking a highly skilled and customer-focused
Senior Solutions Architect - Cloud Native / CaaS to join our
Global Presales Organization, reporting to the
Senior Director, Presales.
The Senior Solutions Architect will serve as a technical subject-matter expert and strategic advisor for customers, partners, and internal teams, with a strong focus on
Cloud-as-a-Service (CaaS), cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, storage, networking, automation, and cloud migration technologies.
This role will work closely with customers and cross-functional teams to understand complex business and technical challenges, architect innovative solutions, demonstrate platform capabilities, develop proof-of-concepts, and build automation frameworks that accelerate adoption and migration across heterogeneous cloud environments.
The ideal candidate combines
deep hands-on engineering expertise with strong
customer-facing presales skills and the ability to take a solution from concept through architecture, proof-of-concept, demonstration, and production adoption.
In your daily job you will:
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, partners, and field sales teams throughout the customer lifecycle.
- Engage with customers to understand their business objectives, technical requirements, application architectures, and cloud transformation strategies.
- Develop end-to-end solution architectures leveraging CaaS, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, storage, networking, and automation technologies.
- Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and executive-level technical discussions.
- Deliver compelling technical presentations and customized customer demonstrations showcasing platform capabilities and business value.
- Support account teams in developing technical strategies, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, and solution positioning.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear business outcomes for both technical and executive audiences.
HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE Key skills and competencies for succeeding in this role are:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience may be considered.
- 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, systems engineering, cloud architecture, technical consulting, presales, or a related field.
- Strong hands-on experience with Cloud-as-a-Service (CaaS) and cloud-native technologies.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes and container technologies.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and at least one major public cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong understanding of storage technologies, distributed systems, and persistent storage for cloud-native workloads.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native networking and Kubernetes networking concepts.
- Hands-on experience developing automation using technologies such as Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible, APIs, or similar tools.
- Experience designing and implementing Proofs of Concept and customer demonstrations.
- Experience developing automation frameworks for cloud migration, workload migration, or infrastructure transformation.
- Strong understanding of hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
- Excellent communication, presentation, technical writing, and customer-facing skills.
- Ability to work effectively with both highly technical engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
- Willingness to travel globally to support strategic customer engagements when required.
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.
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