Senior Solutions Architect – RapidScale

Cox Enterprises

Senior Solutions Architect at RapidScale connecting complex multi-cloud technologies with evolving business needs. Leading discovery engagements and designing hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRaleigh • Florida, Illinois, New York, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCitrixCloudCyber SecurityDNSFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformTCP/IPVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a strategic advisor, connecting complex multi-cloud technologies with the evolving business needs of clients
Lead discovery engagements, develop business-aligned solution strategies, and design hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
Maintain deep expertise across RapidScale’s hosted solutions while providing high-level guidance on public cloud services
Effectively coordinate with public cloud specialists, ensuring seamless engagement for advanced discovery and solution design when client requirements call for public cloud–focused architectures
Lead technical discovery engagements with customers to uncover business goals, pain points, and drivers
Translate requirements into tailored, outcome-focused cloud and infrastructure solutions
Architect hybrid and multi-cloud environments, aligning with performance, availability, security, and compliance needs
Represent hosted and public cloud offerings at a deep technical level, fully scoping, architecting, and presenting solutions composed of these services
Collaborate to architect multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions across both hosted and public cloud service sets, ensuring the best alignment with customer outcomes
Act as the technical lead throughout the sales cycle, from discovery to hand-off
Participate in RFPs, solution reviews, and scope definitions
Design security architectures including MDR, SOCaaS, IAM, SIEM/SOAR, and vulnerability management
Ensure solutions align with compliance standards (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, ISO, NIST)
Design secure, high-performance networks integrating SD-WAN, VPN, DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls across on-prem and cloud environments
Stay current on emerging tech (cloud, AI/ML, automation, cybersecurity) and translate innovation into business strategy
Educate clients and internal teams on current and future-state capabilities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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)

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Hard Skills & Tools

multi-cloud architecturehybrid cloud architecturecloud solutions designsecurity architectureSD-WANVPNDNSTCP/IPfirewallsdata protection

Soft Skills

strategic advisorpresentation skillscommunication skillscollaborationtechnical leadershipclient educationproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementdiscovery engagementsolution design

Certifications

Public Cloud CertificationAWS CertificationAzure CertificationGoogle Cloud Certification