Cohesity
Solutions Architect
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Senior Solutions Architect
About the Role
Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers—including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500—trust Cohesity to strengthen resilience while providing Gen AI insights into data.
We are looking for experienced architects who can:
- Develop detailed architecture and transition blueprints that drive successful customer deployments, migrations, and platform transformation initiatives.
- Create repeatable deployment blueprints used by services, delivery, partner, and customer teams to deploy secondary storage solutions.
- Collaborate with engineering, systems engineers, tech marketing, and customer support to build professional services practices—from assessment and architecture design to migration planning, deployment, and governance.
The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in architecting, documenting, deploying, and enabling others. This role requires technical expertise, strong customer relationships, and a passion for delivering high-impact solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Solution Design & Delivery
- Deliver architecture designs and professional services to Cohesity customers.
- Lead transition initiatives from assessment to deployment completion, acting as the technical authority for:
- Migration strategy
- Workload prioritization
- Execution planning
- Identify risks (technical, operational, security, business) and establish mitigation plans before implementation.
Customer & Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a trusted advisor to customer architects, infrastructure teams, and executives.
- Review and approve design deviations, implementation decisions, and deployment readiness milestones.
- Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams.
- Collaborate with product solutions, product management, and engineering teams to align technology capabilities with customer needs.
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Communication & Continuous Improvement
- Present architecture recommendations, deployment strategies, and technical risks to stakeholders.
- Engage directly with customers to assess needs and recommend Cohesity solutions.
- Document detailed solution designs, including:
- Architecture diagrams
- Sizing specifications
- Integration requirements
- Risk assessments
- Provide field feedback to Product Management and Engineering on challenges, feature gaps, automation, and customer requirements.
- Define technical architecture, sizing, and performance to meet customer needs.
- Work with engineers to ensure deployment designs are successfully implemented.
- Develop best practices for deployment designs, translating them into project plans.
- Continuously refine deliverables as new features/products are released.
- Improve post-deployment documentation (run books, pre-deployment templates).
Qualifications & Requirements
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of professional IT experience.
Highly Desirable Experience
Technical Skills
- Data Protection & Backup:
- NetBackup
- Compute & Virtualization: VMware (vSphere, vCenter), Hyper-V, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Physical Systems: Windows, Linux/Unix
- Databases: Oracle, SQL, MongoDB, SAP
- Storage: NAS, SAN, Object Storage, NFS, SMB, S3
- Networking: IP Planning, VLANs, Routing, Firewall, Load Balancing, DNS, NTP, MTU, multisite networking.
- Security: AD, LDAP, SSO, MGA, RBAC, Least Privilege, Encryption, Ransomware Recovery
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Cloud Archival, Recovery Patterns, Hybrid Cloud
- Data Protection, Security & Management
- Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
- Database Protection & Recovery
- Scripting & Automation: Python, Ansible, ServiceNow
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Soft Skills
- Excellent communication & documentation skills (written and verbal).
- Strong organizational and time-management abilities.
- Project management skills with a focus on deadlines.
- Self-starter with the ability to influence stakeholders.
Travel & Work Expectations
- Expected Travel: 50%
- Hybrid Work Policy:
- Employees within a 45-minute commute work 2-3 days on-site.
- Candidates outsideCommute zones may apply but must have the right to work in the location.
Why Join Cohesity?
- Impactful Work: Help protect and unlock insights from global data, defending against rising cyber threats.
- Innovation-First Culture: Move fast, think big, and deliver bold solutions.
- Inclusive Environment: A workplace where every voice matters, diversity is celebrated, and collaboration drives success.
- Cutting-Edge Technology: Work with AI, NVIDIA, IBM, AWS, Google Cloud, and more.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Cohesity is committed to ensuring an inclusive workforce. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, gender identity or expression, martial status, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.
Accommodations Available If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process due to a disability or if you require an alternative method for applying, please contact us at 1-855-9COHESITY or recruiting@cohesity.com.
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