Security Solution Architect

Cohesity; Illinois; On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vacation time

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Life/Disability insurance

Job summary

Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security and management, seeks a seasoned Security Specialist to own the technical win in pre-sales engagements. You’ll architect ransomware-recovery, immutable vaulting, and identity-resilience use cases, deliver workshops, demos, and POCs, and translate technical value into business impact for executives.

You’ll partner with a Security Sales Specialist on commercial deals, leverage AI tools to boost productivity, and present credible narratives to CISOs

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of pre-sales engineering and architecture experience in security.
• Hands-on experience designing ransomware-recovery architectures or immutable/air-gapped backup solutions.
• Strong knowledge of AD/Entra ID, zero trust, and security concepts for executive audiences.
• Ability to translate technical value into business impact and craft credible narratives for CISOs.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical win in every security deal you support—discovery, solution design, demos, and POC value.
• Be the security architecture SME on ransomware-recovery, immutability, and identity resilience.
• Architect reference architectures and lead workshops, pilots, and POCs across regulated industries.
• Build executive-quality technical narratives—architecture diagrams and business cases.
• Collaborate with security partners on joint solutions and co-sell efforts.
• Feed field feedback into the roadmap and ensure disciplined deal hygiene.

Skills

Pre-sales engineering

Security architecture

Ransomware-recovery design

Identity resilience

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Executive communication

AI tooling proficiency

English proficiency

Tools

Active Directory

Entra ID

PowerShell

Job description

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. Cohesity's Security portfolio turns the backup estate into an active line of cyber defense: FortKnox (immutable, air-gapped cyber vaulting), Threat Defense (AI-powered threat detection), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), powered by Cyera, Data Classification, and Identity Resilience, built with Semperis. This is a full portfolio, not a single product, and it's the reason the role exists. Frontier models can now execute multistage attacks end to end, collapsing the window defenders have between initial access and encryption and narrowing what “protected” means to a short, defensible list: true immutability, a vault outside the production identity domain, genuine air-gap, and a tested recovery path. That's an architecture problem, and it's the one you're hired to solve on these founding seats on a new Security specialist team. Paired one-to-one with a Sr. Security Sales Specialist, you own the technical win — architecture, demos, POCs, and the credibility to hold a technical room — while the Sales Specialist owns the commercial relationship and the number. You bring enough depth to design and defend a ransomware-recovery, immutability, or identity-resilience architecture under technical scrutiny, and enough range to translate it into a business case an executive buys. This is a pre-sales, solution-architecture, and consultative role, not a hands-on production-engineering seat.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Own the technical win in every Security deal you support — discovery, solution design, demos, and proof of value — partnered with the Security Sales Specialist who owns the commercial close.
• Be the security architecture SME in the room on ransomware-recovery design, immutable/air-gapped vaulting, identity resilience, and DSPM — credible with a CISO, VP of Security, or their architects.
• Architect reference architectures and lead technical workshops, POCs, and pilots that validate ransomware-recovery and identity-resilience use cases across regulated industries.
• Build executive-quality technical narratives — solution briefs, architecture diagrams, and business cases specific to the account.
• Know your accounts' technology footprint, and work the security partner ecosystem on joint solutions and technical co-sell.
• Feed the field back into the roadmap, and support disciplined deal hygiene — accurate technical qualification and honest POC exit criteria.

WE’D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• A minimum of 5 years of pre-sales engineering and architecture experience in security.
• Hands‑on experience designing or deploying ransomware‑recovery architectures, immutable/air‑gapped backup solutions, or identity‑resilience (AD/Entra ID recovery) systems, with a strong infrastructure background (backup/recovery, storage, hybrid‑cloud).
• Working knowledge of Active Directory / Entra ID architecture and core security concepts — ransomware kill chains, immutability, air‑gapping, zero trust — plus scripting/API proficiency (Python, PowerShell) for demos and POCs.
• Excellent communication skills — able to simplify complex concepts for technical and executive audiences — and comfort operating in a co‑sell / specialist model.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making.
• Professional English language proficiency for customer and internal communication.
• The ability to travel as required.

WE ARE EXTRA EXCITED IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Prior specialist or overlay SE/SA experience at a data infrastructure, backup, or cybersecurity vendor, including validating ransomware‑recovery or identity‑resilience use cases in regulated industries.
• Existing technical relationships or direct competitive experience in the backup, cyber resilience, or data security markets — matched to your territory.

HOW YOU WILL BE MEASURED:

• Technical win rate on the deals you support, and influenced revenue and pipeline progression across your territory.
• Quality and reuse of the assets you produce, and the services / multi-phase attach they help generate.
• Field collaboration with your paired Security Sales Specialist, and partner co‑sell results.
• Technical qualification quality and POC / forecast reliability.

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay Range :

$240,000.00-$300,000.00

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

Current pay transparency shows the OTE (On-Target Earnings) for commission-based roles.

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.
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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.

We strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. Candidates outside the area should apply only if they are committed to relocating prior to their start date and have the legal right to work in the job location.