Global Solutions Architect

Overview

Global, individual-contributor Technical Director role serving as the most senior technical authority for public cloud within Rubrik Professional Services, setting architectural direction and leading the most strategic customer engagements worldwide.

What you'll do

• Own the global cloud architecture standard for Rubrik Professional Services, including reference architectures, design patterns, guardrails, and documented anti-patterns
• Act as the final technical escalation point for cloud architecture decisions on strategic engagements worldwide
• Define the technical shape of cloud service offerings: what we sell, how it is scoped, and what good delivery looks like
• Establish Rubrik PS's position on emerging cloud capabilities and translate them into deployment guidance before customers ask
• Own architecture and design on the most complex, highest-visibility customer engagements globally, including multi-region, multi-cloud, and multi-regulator estates
• Serve as trusted advisor to customer CIO, CTO, Chief Architect, and CISO stakeholders, and defend design decisions in customer architecture review boards
• Partner with Sales and Pre-Sales on strategic pursuits: technical validation, level of effort, and honest risk assessment
• Lead briefings and multi-day design workshops on site and remotely
• Build reusable intellectual property such as reference architectures, deployment automation, design templates, decision trees, and delivery accelerators
• Mentor and technically develop Solutions Architects and senior consultants across all theatres
• Define technical competency standards and enablement for cloud within Professional Services, and help set the hiring bar through technical interviews
• Represent Rubrik Professional Services externally at conferences, customer advisory boards, and in published technical material
• Act as the field's most credible voice into Product Management and Engineering, shaping roadmap priorities, supportability, and cloud-native feature direction
• Partner with Support and Customer Success on systemic technical issues before they become patterns
• Work with PS Operations and leadership to turn field learning into better scoping models, estimates, and delivery methodology

What you'll need

• 15+ years overall experience, including 8+ years as a hands-on cloud architect at enterprise scale
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture for multi-region, multi-account or multi-subscription cloud estates, in a large enterprise or a consulting / professional services organization
• Expert-level AWS and Azure
• Genuine depth across compute, storage, networking, identity, and encryption / key management
• Deep understanding of enterprise data protection and cyber resilience, including RTO and RPO modelling, immutability, backup and recovery design, and isolated and air-gapped recovery
• Working fluency in cloud security and compliance frameworks and how they constrain design in regulated industries
• Strong automation background, including infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep), scripting (Python, PowerShell), API-first integration, and CI/CD
• A track record of influence without authority across a global, matrixed organization and multiple time zones
• Executive-grade communication, credible with a customer's CIO and principal engineer on the same day
• Evidence of building reusable technical IP, not only delivering successful projects
• The ability to learn a complex new platform to expert depth, quickly
• Occasional travel

Nice to have

• GCP strongly preferred
• Kubernetes and containerized workload architecture; cloud-native and managed database platforms
• SaaS data protection experience (Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and similar)
• Prior Principal, Distinguished, or Technical Director title within a vendor professional services organization or a major systems integrator
• Professional or expert-level certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent)
• An established public technical presence, such as talks, writing, open source, or community leadership

Details

• Location: USA, Remote
• Global, individual-contributor role at Technical Director level
• Base salary range (US2, all other US offices/remote): $208,100 to $291,600 USD; eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits