Senior Lead Architect

Cerebras; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras is seeking experienced architects to develop detailed deployment blueprints for successful customer deployments in the Netherlands. This role involves collaborating with engineering and customer support to build professional services practices that leverage architecture for installations and integrations.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of IT experience, a bachelor's degree, and strong skills in architecture design, documentation, and customer engagement.

Responsibilities include delivering designs, managing projects, and collaborating with various teams while continuously improving deployment practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional IT experience with deployment and architecture.
• Excellent communication and project management skills.
• Ability to create detailed solution designs and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver architecture designs and professional services.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams.
• Engage with customers to understand their needs.

Skills

Architecture designs

Documentation

Deployment strategies

Technical risk assessment

Customer engagement

Scripting automation

Data protection

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Ansible

ServiceNow

VMware

SQL

MongoDB

Job description

We are looking for experienced architects who can develop detailed deployment blueprints for successful customer deployments. Additionally, you will create repeatable deployment blueprints that become the templates for all customer deployments. These will be used to develop our services practices and enable delivery teams, partner teams, and customers to deploy our secondary storage solutions and applications. The ideal candidate has 10+ 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 also 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 installation, integration, applications, migration, scripting (automation) 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
• Produce and own formal solution design documents (HLD/LLD) that validate the agreed scope and guide the delivery team
• 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 teams 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
• Continuously 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.)
• Convert deployment designs and best practices into a training curriculum
• Deliver hands‑on training in small group formats
• Conduct beta testing of procedures for new deployment designs in the field
• Provide feedback to Implement Engineers, Systems Engineers, and engineering on ways to improve the overall experience
• Provide leadership and support for any data recovery or Smart‑Files related issues

We Are Extra Excited If You Have Any 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:
• 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 continuity
• Database protection and recovery
• Scripting / automation (Python, Ansible and ServiceNow)
• Excellent communication and project‑related skills are 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%

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEOE)

Cohesity is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact us at 1-855-9COHESITY or [e-mail] for assistance.

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.