Enterprise Solutions Architect - Cloud & Networking

Alkira Australia; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkira is growing our Solutions Architect team and seeks high-energy, dedicated professionals who can help new and existing clients succeed on our Network-Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.

As an SA embedded with large Enterprise accounts, you will lead architecture discussions, deploy Alkira-based solutions in customer environments, and develop automation using Terraform, APIs and scripting. This role is UK/Netherlands regional focused and involves frequent customer engagement.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a customer-facing technical role (consulting, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or professional services).
• 1+ years hands-on experience architecting and deploying cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or OCI).
• Hands-on experience designing and building hybrid and public cloud infrastructure.
• Strong networking background in routing technologies and network security.
• IaC and automation tools proficiency (Terraform, Ansible, Python, REST APIs).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites.
• Relevant technical certifications are a plus.
• BA/BS/MS degree is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers as the hands-on technical owner from evaluation through production deployment.
• Lead network architecture discussions with customers and partners.
• Design, build, and deploy Alkira-based solutions in customer environments using best practices.
• Develop automation, integrations, and tooling (Terraform, APIs, scripting) to accelerate customer deployments.
• Collaborate directly with customer networking, cloud, and platform teams.
• Conduct technical workshops, trainings, and whiteboard sessions for customers and partners.
• Create design and architecture best practices, reference architectures, and deployment guidelines.
• Provide deep technical support and troubleshooting for customers, escalating and driving resolution with Engineering.
• Own customer success on key accounts from adoption and expansion perspective.
• Work with Alkira Product Management and Engineering to provide feedback on upcoming features from the customer's lens.
• Track and drive key customer features/asks with Product Management through to implementation.

Skills

Customer-facing tech role

Cloud networking

Networking fundamentals

IaC & automation

Terraform

APIs

Python

Scripting

Communication skills

Education

BA/BS/MS degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

REST APIs

Python

Job description

Alkira is growing our Solutions Architect team and seeks high-energy, dedicated professionals who can help new and existing clients succeed on our Network-Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.

As an SA embedded with large Enterprise accounts, you will lead architecture discussions, deploy Alkira-based solutions in customer environments, and develop automation using Terraform, APIs and scripting. This role is UK/Netherlands regional focused and involves frequent customer engagement.