Senior Solution Architect

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including more than 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on‑premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for innovation, product strength, and simplicity in design.

Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security?

We are looking for experienced architects who can develop detailed architecture and transition blueprints that guide successful customer deployments, migrations, and platform transformation initiatives. You’ll also create repeatable deployment blueprints that become templates for all customer deployments, used to develop our services practices and enable our delivery teams, partner teams, and customers to deploy our secondary storage solutions applications. The ideal candidate is someone with 5+ years of experience in architecting, documenting, deploying, and enabling others.

These practices will utilize the architecture sold by our account teams to achieve customer‑committed solutions. In addition to building these solutions, this role will spend considerable time validating these procedures in the field and teaching partners and customers how to apply them in their environment.

In this role you will work with engineering, systems engineers, tech marketing specialists, and customer support to build out professional services practices starting with the architectural blueprint that covers assessment, architecture design, migration planning, deployment and governance, to be used by delivery teams, partners and customers.

How you’ll spend your time here

Deliver architecture designs and professional services to Cohesity customers.

Lead customer transition initiatives from assessment through deployment completion, serving as technical authority for migration strategy, workload prioritization and execution planning.

Identify technical, operational, security, and business risks and establish transition plans prior to implementation.

Act as a trusted advisor to customer architects, infrastructure teams, and executive stakeholders.

Review and approve design deviations, implementation decisions and deployment readiness milestones.

Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams.

Collaborate with Cohesity’s product solutions, product management and engineering team(s) to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements.

Present architecture recommendations, deployment strategies, and technical risks to executive and technical stakeholders.

Engage directly with customers to understand their organization needs and identify how Cohesity’s product features can best support their objectives.

Develop detailed solution designs including architecture diagrams, sizing specifications, integration requirements, and risk assessments.

Provide field feedback to Product Management and Engineering teams regarding deployment challenges, feature gaps, automation opportunities, and customer requirements.

Define technical architecture including sizing and performance that meet customer requirements.

Engage with teams to ensure Deployment Designs are successfully deployed.

Develop best practices for the deployment designs that translate to project plans.

Continually improve deliverables as we scale and release new features/products.

Inspect deliverables for success and improvements.

Work with others to develop post-deployment documentation (run books, pre‑deployment templates, etc.).

Provide feedback to Implement Engineers, Systems Engineers, and engineering on ways to improve the overall experience.

We’d love to talk to you if you have many of the following

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

10+ years of professional IT experience.

Experience highly desirable in the following areas:

Backup Products: NetBackup

Compute & Virtualization (VMware, vSphere/vCenter, Hyper‑V, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

Physical: Windows, Linux/Unix

Databases: Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, SAP

Storage: NAS, SAN, Object Storage, NFS, SMB, S3, Storage Performance Concepts

Networking: IP Planning, VLANs, Routing, Firewall rules, Load Balancing concepts, DNS, NTP, MTU, multisite networking concepts

Security: AD, LDAP, SSO, MGA, RBAC, least privilege access concepts, Key management, encryption, ransomware recovery principles

Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, Cloud Archival, Recovery Patterns, Hybrid Cloud

Data Protection, Data Security and Data Management

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance

Database Protection and Recovery

Scripting / Automation (Python, Ansible and ServiceNow)

Excellent communication and project‑related skills required.

Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation.

Self‑starter with excellent organization and time management skills.

The ability to manage projects and drive to a deadline.

Expected travel: 50%.

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In-Office Expectations: Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g., within a forty‑five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2‑3 days a week of their choosing.

Interested candidates based outside of the designated areas are welcome to apply, provided they have the right to work in the job location.

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