Cloud Solution Architect

Job Description

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

Since our founding in 2009, Pure Storage has empowered innovators to build a better world with data. In less than eight years, Pure reached $1B in sales, faster than nearly every enterprise company in history, and our incredible growth continues to outpace the competition.

Our mission? Deliver a simple, evergreen data platform that enables everyone to turn data into intelligence and advantage. The secret sauce? More than 3,000 team members (and growing!) around the world who join forces to invent the next big thing. And then the next one.

The world is experiencing a revolution driven by next-generation technology like AI, machine learning, virtual reality, quantum computing, and self-driving cars—all of which require unprecedented amounts of data. This sets the stage for Pure’s technology to grow exponentially in the coming years.

We’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions , and as we continue to gobble up market share, we’re blazing trails and setting records:

• For five straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays .
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a Satmetrix Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally .
• Pure puts a premium on the future , investing 26% of revenue into R&D.

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE

As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will utilize your strong technical competencies in the field of cloud migrations, containers, enterprise infrastructure, and solution design to provide the highest level of implementation capability and technical consultation to both customers and Pure sales teams to support sales goals.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience working with customers to realize their cloud ambitions. Whether it be presenting to a prospective customer about how Pure can accelerate their cloud adoption, understanding their aspirations and capabilities, being able to position the right solutions, or detailing solutions to customers who have extensive multi-cloud capabilities already, you will be comfortable presenting on these subjects to all levels of the business.
The candidate would be expected to excel in all of these areas, including guiding customers through both technical and process changes that are critical to cloud adoption success. They should be skilled in writing and discussing cloud adoption plans, designing strategies, have extensive experience with multi-cloud migrations, stateless and stateful container migrations, and to be competent to hold these types of discussion with customers and internal Pure staff.

You will work on cross-functional teams including Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development Managers, Services and engineering to scope and help sell Professional Services solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous solutions to customers/partners. You will become intimately acquainted with the customer's/partner’s business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history, enabling you to present targeted solutions to our customer base. You will build replication, clustering and migration solutions for our customers and will be expected to be a member of the hands-on team delivering these services globally across the Professional Services geographies . The role covers pre-sales and delivery functions, and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates.

You will possess a thorough understanding of IT architecture, designing solutions, networking and implementation of these solutions and must have significant experience across different replication technologies, clustering, cloud and data migration solutions. You will also be experienced in delivering large scale and complex projects utilizing all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate.

You will be responsible for creating the cloud vision for our customers, moving that vision through the design and implementation phases in order to transform their business.

Our Cloud Solution Architects work with customers, sales teams, engineering and Pure partners to:

• U nderstand prospect’s technical needs related to their cloud transformation
• Be comfortable running (and improving) Cloud Strategy Workshops in front of CxOs and technical staff
• P rovide technical consultation/education to the sales teams and keep them apprised on new cloud offerings and cloud migration solutions.
• In a post-sales consultative role to support the implementation of the professional services solution that was scoped and subsequently sold.
• P rovide technical consultation/education to the sales teams and keep them apprised on new replication offerings and data migrations solutions.
• Participate in customer evaluations and proof of concepts on Pure systems.
• Advise and consult on engineering developments and strategies that a cloud transformation can provoke, ensuring these solutions meet and integrate into our clients DR and BCP best practices.
• Plan, conduct and direct projects to support sales efforts and address future customer needs
• Evaluate partner proposals for cloud services to ensure they deliver quality and value for money to Pure.
• Deliver cloud replication and migration solutions to our customers, either as a sole resource or member of a team.
• Develop scripts for both integration of Pure storage into a customer’s operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud and data migrations.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE

• Track record of designing and executing complex cloud migration strategies
• Migration experience including P2V, VMware-based, container, and between cloud providers.
• Experience building out a Cloud Centre of Excellence to accelerate cloud migrations and transformation
• Preparation and delivery of technical and architecture solutions
• Professional level AWS certifications and/or the equivalent Microsoft Azure, GCP, and VMware offerings
• Virtualization Tools - Cisco/Microsoft/VMWare (Cloud solutions).
• Data Center Migrations/Consolidations/Toolsets.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure-as-code toolsets such as CloudFormation
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Networking concepts and high-level designs.
• Proven experience of scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, Powershell, Visual Basic, Python.
• Knowledge of Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking.
• Networking infrastructure (Nexus / ACI / Broadcom / Brocade).
• Security/Firewalls.
• Other technical platform or infrastructure migration tools
• Data Center Migration Implementations for block and file.
• Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience.
• Hyper-V and VMWare ESX (vRA / SRM).
• Contribute significant portions for data migration solutions to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs.
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN).
• UNIX OS, NFS file systems and UNIX distributed network environment.
• Disaster Recovery, Replication, Backup and Migration technologies
• Pure FlashArray / FlashBlade experience / Replication knowledge
• Pure CBS (Cloud Block Store)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Team leadership skills.
• BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience with 8 to 10 years of experience is preferred.
• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering; or related field is required; a Graduate Degree is preferred.
• Experience which demonstrates a significant level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell Pure products and services is required.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment.
• Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.
• Creative approach to problem solving.
• Travel to the prospective customer's domestic sites and other global sites as necessary.

BE YOU—CORPORATE CLONES NEED NOT APPLY.

Pure is where you ask big questions, think differently, and make an impact. This is not just a job, but a place where you have a voice and can accelerate your career. We value unique thoughts and celebrate individuality, and with ample opportunity to learn, develop yourself, and expand into different roles, joining Pure is an investment in your career journey.

Through our Pure Equality program, which supports a flourishing field of employee resource groups, we nourish the personal and professional lives of our team members. And our Pure Good Foundation gives back to local and global communities through volunteering and grants.

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.

PURE IS COMMITTED TO EQUALITY.

Pure is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other characteristic legally protected by the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are being considered for hire. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] .

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