Senior Solutions Architect — Cloud-Network Transformation (East)

alkira; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkira is seeking a Solutions Architect (Forward Deployed Engineer) to embed with strategic Enterprise accounts, driving pre-sales validation through production deployment. You will lead architecture discussions, design and deploy Alkira-based solutions, and accelerate customer deployments with automation and tooling.

The role sits at the intersection of Sales, Engineering, and the customer, with responsibilities spanning evaluations, deployments, adoption, and roadmap feedback to Product

Qualifications

• Strong cloud and networking fundamentals.
• 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role.
• Hands-on experience architecting and deploying cloud solutions.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Embed with strategic customers as the hands-on technical owner from evaluation through production deployment.
• Lead network architecture discussions with customers and partners.
• Design, build, and deploy Alkira-based solutions in customer environments using best practices.
• Develop automation, integrations, and tooling (Terraform, APIs, scripting) to accelerate customer deployments.
• Collaborate directly with customer networking, cloud, and platform teams.
• Conduct technical workshops, trainings, and whiteboard sessions for customers and partners.
• Create design and architecture best practices, reference architectures, and deployment guidelines.
• Provide deep technical support and troubleshooting for customers, escalating and driving resolution with Engineering.
• Own customer success on key accounts from adoption and expansion perspective.
• Work with Alkira Product Management and Engineering to provide feedback on upcoming features from the customer's lens.
• Track and drive key customer features/asks with Product Management through to implementation.

Skills

Cloud fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Customer-facing

Cloud deployments

IaC tooling

Terraform

Ansible

Python

REST APIs

Network security

Education

BA/BS/MS degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

REST APIs

Job description

Alkira is seeking a Solutions Architect (Forward Deployed Engineer) to embed with strategic Enterprise accounts, driving pre-sales validation through production deployment. You will lead architecture discussions, design and deploy Alkira-based solutions, and accelerate customer deployments with automation and tooling.

The role sits at the intersection of Sales, Engineering, and the customer, with responsibilities spanning evaluations, deployments, adoption, and roadmap feedback to Product