Solutions Architect - India

Full Time
Location: India

Rafay’s Solution Architecture Team is composed of hands-on architects who work closely with our customers to architect and design systems using the latest, cloud-native technologies. Our fast-growing team is looking for a customer-focused solutions architect to partner with our sales and customer success teams. You will possess experience working at fast-moving companies in the tech industry; customer-facing skills that will allow you to represent Rafay within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel. You will have a strong technical background that will enable you to interact and provide guidance to developers, architects, DevOps personnel and SREs. You will build a trusted technical advisor relationship with prospects and customers through education, presentation, demonstration, and proof-of-concept of Rafay's market-leading Kubernetes Operations platform. The work is ambitious, stimulating and you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in the cloud-native space.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Support the sales and customer success teams to help customers understand the value of Rafay’s market-leading Kubernetes Operations Platform.
• Understand customer requirements for specific use cases and help them design architectures and solutions using Rafay's Kubernetes Operations Platform.
• Understand customer technical objections and work with the sales and customer success teams to develop strategies to resolve them.
• Work hands-on with customer’s developers, SREs and DevOps personnel to ensure they are using the Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform effectively.
• Build and deliver presentations, demos and proofs-of-concept to demonstrate the use of Rafay with key partners/technologies in the CNCF Landscape.
• Communicate customer technical requirements to Rafay's product and engineering teams; be the customer advocate for the product roadmap.
• Be the technical point of contact for prospective customers, and have the ability to both advise and troubleshoot in complex technical environments.
• Represent Rafay at trade shows, and craft technical content to present at conferences, meetups, and local events.
• Travel to customer sites and events as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and concisely on complex technical topics, and deliver effective technical presentations.
• Experience in software engineering and design architecture.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development, engineering, operations, or equivalent role.
• Working knowledge of software development practices and technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, containers, virtualization (vSphere, OpenStack) and public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, etc).
• Familiarity with the CNCF technology landscape, and ability to quickly learn new technologies and solutions.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) preferred.