Senior Cybersecurity Solutions Architect — Equity & Growth

Barracuda; Virginia; On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity: stock options

Comprehensive health benefits

Generous paid time off

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Life and disability coverage

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Barracuda is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to bridge cybersecurity technology with customer requirements. You will design architectures, demonstrate solutions, and support the sales motion across network and email security, data protection, XDR, and application security.

You’ll collaborate with customers, partners, and Barracuda Sales to map capabilities to outcomes, deliver technical content, and contribute to win strategies.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on security expertise including installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and support of security technologies.
• Experience working with or for Managed Service Providers and supporting partner-led sales motions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities for delivering demos and workshops to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Solid grounding in TCP/IP, routing, DNS/DHCP, NAT, TLS and common security controls (segmentation, VPN, IDS/IPS, web filtering, zero trust).
• Consultative, customer-first approach translating requirements into practical architectures and actionable next steps.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into architectures with customers, partners, and sales to design and recommend Barracuda solutions.
• Support opportunities through solution validation, demos, workshops, and proof-of-concept activities.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to qualify opportunities and address objections and competitive questions.
• Represent Barracuda in customer sessions, webinars, and forums and feed learnings back to improve messaging.

Skills

Security expertise

Channel/MSP acumen

Communication skills

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Job description

Barracuda is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to bridge cybersecurity technology with customer requirements. You will design architectures, demonstrate solutions, and support the sales motion across network and email security, data protection, XDR, and application security.

You’ll collaborate with customers, partners, and Barracuda Sales to map capabilities to outcomes, deliver technical content, and contribute to win strategies.