Senior Field Technical Director - AI Security Architect

Cohesity; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 221,000 - 276,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohesity is seeking a Field Technical Director to design and integrate Cohesity solutions for large enterprise customers. This architect-level role focuses on translating complex business goals into scalable data security, protection, and recovery architectures across data center, edge, and cloud environments.

You will lead technical engagements, drive adoption, mentor teams, and partner with Product Management to address customer requirements, travelling up to 60% as needed.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience with storage, backup and virtualization.
• Expertise in cyber-security, cyber resilience and data protection.
• Strong public cloud, networking, scripting and automation experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with project planning skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 60% and engage with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the strategic technical leader for assigned accounts, influencing both technical strategy and business outcomes.
• Present Cohesity technology to customer executives and technical leaders, explaining use cases.
• Conduct discovery workshops to identify business objectives, document use cases and constraints.
• Develop high-level architectural alternatives and final design plans for scalable deployments.
• Plan technical demos and POCs with the account SE and support RFP/RFI responses.
• Liaise with Product Management to represent customer requirements and drive alignment.
• Lead tiger teams to address strategic challenges and mentor SEs in the region.
• Act as technical escalation point and drive cross-functional product focus in the territory.

Skills

15+ years IT experience

Storage

Backup

Virtualization

Linux CLI

Cyber-security

Cyber Resilience

Disaster Recovery

Public Cloud

Networking

Scripting / Automation

Visio

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Cohesity is seeking a Field Technical Director to design and integrate Cohesity solutions for large enterprise customers. This architect-level role focuses on translating complex business goals into scalable data security, protection, and recovery architectures across data center, edge, and cloud environments.

You will lead technical engagements, drive adoption, mentor teams, and partner with Product Management to address customer requirements, travelling up to 60% as needed.