Cohesity

Field Technical Director

Cohesity

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $154,560 - $193,200 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformLinux

About the role

  • Serve as the strategic technical leader for assigned accounts, influencing both technical strategy and business outcomes.
  • Present Cohesity technology (deep dive) to customer executives, technical leaders/experts and explain how it is applied in various use-cases/scenarios
  • Conduct discovery workshops with the customer to identify business objectives, document use cases/requirements, and operational constraints
  • Develop high-level architectural alternatives, review with customers, and deliver (written) design plans to meet the customer's needs (especially “at scale”) and includes considerations of special phases of the project (e.g. migration, operational cut-over) for Cohesity implementation teams to follow
  • Help plan and conduct technical demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs) with the account SE
  • Provide technical information for RFPs/RFIs
  • Provide technical review for all account team proposals
  • Liaison with Product Management and Engineering to represent customer/field requirements and resolve specific issues
  • Lead cross-functional “tiger teams” to address strategic customer challenges and opportunities.
  • Mentor SEs and other technical team members to raise the bar for technical excellence in your region.
  • Act as technical point of escalation for all architectural and design decisions.
  • Act as a leader in your territory and across the FTD squad.
  • Drive results leading product focused cross-functional teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years of experience in IT
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making
  • Experience in these technical areas required: Storage, Backup, Virtualization, Linux CLI, Cyber-security & Cyber Resilience
  • Additional experience highly desirable: Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance, Database Protection and Recovery, Distributed Systems, Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Layer 2 Networking and Firewalls, Scripting / Automation, Visio or equivalent application
  • Excellent communication and project-related skills are also required
  • Strong verbal communication/presentation skills
  • Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation
  • Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills
  • The ability to work cross-functionally and run meetings to achieve a plan
  • The ability to manage projects and to drive to a deadline
Benefits
  • health and wellness benefits
  • vacation
  • paid holidays and refresh days
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • life and disability insurance coverages

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
StorageBackupVirtualizationLinux CLICyber-securityCyber ResilienceDisaster RecoveryDatabase ProtectionPublic CloudScripting
Soft skills
communicationproject managementorganizational skillstime managementcross-functional collaborationpresentation skillsdocumentation skillsmentoringleadershipself-starter
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree