Pure Storage Acquired Portworx in October 2020, Creating the Industry's Most Complete Kubernetes Data Services Platform for Cloud Native Applications. This acquisition represents Pure’s largest to date and our deeper expansion into the fast-growing market for multi-cloud data services to support Kubernetes and containers.

Press Release - September 16, 2020

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

Portworx is an industry leading data management platform for Kubernetes. It helps businesses deploy and run databases in containers in any cloud, on any infrastructure, in any flavor of Kubernetes. It’s one of those rare products that creates real lightbulb moments for customers. 

We are looking for a Senior Portworx Solutions Architect to join our rapidly expanding PortWorx Professional Services business. As a Solutions Architect you will utilize your strong technical competencies to deliver complex Portworx and Kubernetes based solutions. Preferred candidates will have hands-on experience in a production Kubernetes environment; building and operating containerized solutions. Applicants should have a mastery of containerization with a strong understanding of DevOps practices. They must understand the cloud-native technology landscape and have hands-on expertise in Kubernetes Environments. 

This is a proactive, engaging, customer-focused, problem-solving position. You will be solving the most cutting-edge technical challenges in a demanding, fast paced environment. Be organized, attentive to detail, and ready to grow with a growing business.

Responsibilities will include:

• Understand prospect’s technical needs related to their kubernetes deployments 
• Design, install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters
• Develop Kubernetes-based solutions
• CI/CD Tools (Pipelines, GitOps, Jenkins), Configuration Management/Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• Lead the API/Micro-Services solution deployment and day2 operations
• Support and manage customer environments
• Work with Portworx Product Engineering customers with cutting-edge solutions
• Collaborate with Portworx Support teams to provide excellent customer experience 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE 

• In depth experience deploying and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments
• Familiarity with other container orchestration platforms 
• Linux system administration experience (RHEL, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu)
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, LoadBalancing)
• (Software-defined) Storage (NFS, Block, iSCSI)
• In depth experience in troubleshooting complex environments
• Proficiency with Kubernetes:
• OpenShift
• Rancher
• Mirantis
• Other orchestrators
• Understanding of open source databases and modern data platform technologies as they relate to highly available business applications on-prem and in the cloud.
• CI / CD experience (jenkins, airflow, argo)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, related field or equivalent experience
• Automation experience: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform

CONSIDERED A BONUS

• Scripting skills (bash, python, ruby)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator qualification or equivalent experience.
• Virtualization technologies (KVM, VMWare)
• Version control systems (git, svn)
• Monitoring & Logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Security (SSL / TLS, kubernetes Secrets, RBAC)
• Experience to use the OpenStorage SDK REST and gRPC interfaces
• Expertise and working knowledge of Cloud IaaS environments such as VMware, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with HA deployments for modern scale out databases and data processing solutions like Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch

The annual base salary range is: $126,000 - $189,000. Salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location. For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations. This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity. And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events - check out purebenefits.com for more information.