Cloud Native Solutions Architect

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The Opportunity

Do you love solving real customer business challenges and transforming the way they work, through architecting unique solutions? If you have a passion for enterprise cloud technology and a talent for helping customers understand them; we want to talk to you!

Nutanix (NTNX) is looking for a passionate and driven Solutions Architect, serving as a specialist and trusted advisor for both end customers and field sales teams. This is a diverse role, ranging from influencing go-to-market strategies, to aiding customers' transformational journeys during the presales phase, to enabling the enterprise adoption of our solutions portfolio.
This role suits.... Solutions Architects looking to grow as a key technical leader, focusing on solving customer challenges, driving sales strategies, architecting cloud-native solutions, and showcasing the overall value of Nutanix solutions.

Sales Engineering at Nutanix
Our Cloud Native team is growing. This team of customer-focused professionals are responsible for identifying and matching technology opportunities with customers' business issues and objectives. This team acts in a consultative fashion and is looked to as an expert in their field by Nutanix sales, customer success, business partners, and customers.

Your Role

• Collaborate with field sales teams to develop go-to-market sales strategies, account plans, and identify and qualify business opportunities.
• Understand customer business needs, design cloud-native architectures, and present compelling solutions that demonstrate the value of our offerings.
• Provide feedback to product teams on client needs, market trends, and sales personas.
• Be the key technical leader and influencer, building and maintaining relationships with technical resources at all levels of a customer organization.
• Stay current with industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies.
• Be a dynamic, self-starter who can flourish in a dynamic technology company.
• Have subject matter expertise in one or more Nutanix products.

What you will bring

• 5+ years of proven experience in a presales role, particularly in cloud-native environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud computing concepts & technologies, such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.
• Familiarity with at least one Kubernetes platform (Rancher, OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKE, D2iQ).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (English).
• Ability to travel as needed for customer meetings and industry events (role requires about 40-50% of travel).
• Fluent French speaking skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing, building, and operating the infrastructure and configuration of container platforms with a focus on automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation etc.).
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g. CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, GitOps, ArgoCD).

Nutanix is an equal opportunity employer.

Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].