
Senior Solutions Architect – RapidScale
Cox Enterprises
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Raleigh • Florida, Illinois, New York, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $126,200 - $189,200 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCitrixCloudCyber SecurityDNSFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformVMware
About the role
- Lead technical discovery engagements with customers to uncover business goals, pain points, and drivers
- Translate requirements into tailored, outcome-focused cloud and infrastructure solutions
- Run workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and stakeholder interviews
- Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, aligning with performance, availability, security, and compliance needs
- Represent our hosted cloud and other core offerings at a deep technical level, fully scoping, architecting, and presenting solutions comprised of these services
- Act as the technical lead throughout the sales cycle, from discovery to hand-off
- Design security architectures including MDR, SOCaaS, IAM, SIEM/SOAR, and vulnerability management
- Stay current on emerging tech (cloud, AI/ML, automation, cybersecurity) and translate innovation into business strategy
Requirements
- A BA/BS Degree with 6+ years of experience, or a MS Degree with 4+ years of experience, or a Ph.D with one year of experience, or 10 years of overall experience without a degree
- Professional Level Public Cloud Certification (AWS, Azure, Google)
- Demonstrated experience working in the context of a sales team
- Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders
- Deep knowledge of private cloud and data center architectures (VMware, Citrix, storage, networking)
- High-level knowledge of AWS/Azure/GCP, how they differ from traditional IT approaches, why businesses use them
- Experience with managed security services and designing secure, compliant architectures
- Strong understanding of hybrid connectivity, SD-WAN, VPN, DNS, and firewalls
- Design experience with SAN and NAS, backup and data protection approaches, technologies and approaches for replication and disaster recovery
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and modern deployment practices is a plus
Benefits
- The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
- seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
- Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
- health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- retirement planning (401(k))
- paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
cloud solutionsinfrastructure solutionssecurity architecturesMDRSOCaaSIAMSIEMSOARvulnerability managementhybrid connectivity
Soft skills
presentation skillswritten communicationverbal communicationarticulating technical conceptsstakeholder engagementworkshop facilitationleadershipcollaborationcustomer engagementproblem-solving
Certifications
Public Cloud Certification