Senior Lead Architect

Cohesity, Inc.; New York (NY, NJ); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus compensation

Commission (sales)

Equity grants

Health benefits

Vacation

Holidays & refresh days

401(k)

Life and disability insurance

Other company benefits

Job summary

Cohesity is seeking a hands-on Automation Architect to design, build, and validate end-to-end automated deployment architectures for customers, partners, and internal teams. You will create scalable, code-driven blueprints, replace manual deployment with repeatable automation, and act as the technical authority across automation, architecture, and system design.

Lead customer engagements, validate architectures, and develop reusable automation assets while ensuring security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional IT experience, including infrastructure/workflow automation.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to boost automation productivity.
• Hands-on automation across virtualization, Linux/Unix, databases, and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to deliver automation-led architecture and services.
• Design and validate automated deployment architectures with reusable assets (Ansible, Python, templates).
• Create training content and documentation; maintain automation backlogs and runbooks.
• Ensure alignment across product, engineering, and delivery teams with standardized automation.

Skills

Automation

Python

Ansible

REST APIs

OAuth/JWT

RBAC

Git

Visio

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL/NoSQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

ServiceNow

Visio

Git

VMware

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 Professional Services team is looking for a hands‑on automation architect who can design, build, and validate automated end‑to‑end deployment architectures that customers, partners, and internal teams can consistently implement. This role blends deep system design, automation engineering, customer engagement, field validation, and enablement. You will create scalable, code‑driven blueprints, replace manual deployment practices with repeatable automation, and serve as the technical authority across automation, architecture, integration, and system design.

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

Customer Engagement & Collaboration

Deliver automation‑led architecture and professional services to customers. Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams. Partner with Product Solutions, engineering, SEs, tech marketing, and support to align product capabilities and APIs with customer automation requirements and ensure smooth knowledge transfer. Engage directly with customers to understand their operational workflows and map Cohesity's solutions and automation capabilities to their objectives.

Architecture & Delivery

Design and validate automated deployment architectures, including sizing, performance, integrations, and migrations. Develop reusable automation assets such as Ansible playbooks, Python modules, workflow templates, and code‑backed runbooks. Support deployment execution and ensure design fidelity across delivery teams and partners through standardized, version‑controlled automation. Conduct field validation and beta testing of new automated procedures, including testing for idempotency, error handling, and rollback.

Practice Development & Enablement

Convert automation designs into training content and deliver hands‑on training to customers, partners, and internal teams. Create high‑quality documentation, code repositories, and knowledge base articles. Continuously refine automation assets as new products, features, and API versions are released.

Process & Alignment

Maintain JIRA user stories and an automation backlog to ensure alignment across product, engineering, and delivery teams.

System Design & Architecture

Deep System Design: Build end‑to‑end automated architectures across services, applications, data stores, and integrations, producing implementation‑ready diagrams, workflow definitions, and sequence flows. API & Integration Architecture: Design and consume REST APIs, JSON schemas, and integration patterns (sync/async, event‑driven, webhooks, retries) to orchestrate workflows across Cohesity and third‑party platforms. AuthN/AuthZ: Implement OAuth/JWT, RBAC, scopes, token flows, service accounts, and secure secrets handling for automated pipelines. Data Architecture: Design efficient SQL schemas and queries; understand NoSQL modeling and storage decisions for automation state, inventory, and reporting. Independent Technical Execution: Research new automation tools and technologies independently. Security Architecture: Apply security‑by‑design principles to automation, including least‑privilege access, auditability of automated actions, and data protection.

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

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional IT experience, including significant time designing and delivering infrastructure or workflow automation.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, accelerate automation development, streamline workflows, and support decision making.
• Hands‑on experience automating: Virtualization (VMware, Hyper‑V, Citrix) Linux/Unix Oracle and SQL Storage platforms (Isilon, NetApp, Pure) Data protection, disaster recovery, data management Public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Expert proficiency in Python and Ansible; experience with ServiceNow workflow and orchestration, Git‑based version control, and architecture tools such as Visio.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills; strong ability to teach and enable others.
• Strong organization, project management, and deadline‑driven execution.

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. 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.

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Pay Range : $137,360.00-$171,700.00 The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full‑time employment.

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.

• bonus compensation
• commission (if in a sales function)
• equity grants
• health and wellness benefits
• vacation
• paid holidays and refresh days
• 401(k) retirement plan
• life and disability insurance coverages
• other benefits the Company may offer from time to time

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