Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure Advisory _ remote in the US

Company Description

Mirantis provides enterprises with the fastest path to a modern cloud built for AI. We deliver a full infrastructure foundation for VMs, containers, and orchestration through a distinctive model that enables organizations to run their platforms at scale across public cloud, private cloud, and the edge. Our innovative AI solutions for the enterprise bring AI inference and governance into their own environments, giving businesses control over the models and data that power their applications. Mirantis serves many of the world's leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Splunk, STC, Vodafone, and Volkswagen.

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Job Description

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect whose focus is on the whole: someone who aligns the technology landscape of enterprise customers with their business objectives. You will work with client leadership and technical teams to understand where a business is trying to go, assess the current-state landscape, and shape a coherent target-state architecture and roadmap that moves technology decisions in service of business outcomes.

This is a role about synthesis and judgment. You are well versed across a broad range of technologies - cloud, containers, operating systems, platform components, and AI - but your value is in seeing how they fit together into a system that serves the enterprise, weighing trade-offs across cost, risk, operational fit, and time-to-value, and communicating those choices clearly to both executives and engineers.

What matters most is the ability to think holistically about business-technology alignment and to reason credibly across the technology domains below.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Mirantis customers, Mirantis colleagues, stakeholders, partners, vendors and other resources on improving the customer's experience
• Assess and understand the customer's business strategy, drivers, and constraints
  
  • Current-state technology landscapes
  • Application portfolio
  • External drivers such as required certifications, existing corporate resources
  • Pain points and challenges
• Collaborate with the customer to address shortcomings of the current state
• Employ Mirantis products and experience to transform the existing landscape into a coherent, stable, secure, and future proof platform
• For recommendations made provide defensible reasoning to help the customer understand why the recommendations have been made.
• Become a trusted advisor of the customer
• Work with Mirantis product to further development and eliminate shortcomings
• Present architectures, roadmaps, and rationale to audiences ranging from customer executives to hands-on engineers.
• Engage on-site with customers across regions as part of the discovery, design, and advisory process.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Extensive architecture and engineering experience across infrastructure or platform engineering, including customer-facing architecture or advisory experience

Required Skills/Abilities:

• A demonstrated ability to think about the enterprise as a whole - connecting technology decisions to business goals - rather than working only at the level of individual systems.
• Broad, credible fluency across a range of technologies, including:
  
  • Private cloud platforms including OpenStack
  • Kubernetes-based container platforms
  • Multi-cluster management concepts and tooling
  • Workload requirements
  • VMware estate modernization - enough understanding of vSphere/VMware environments to advise enterprises on virtualization strategy and migration paths as they modernize toward open platforms.
  • Bare-metal provisioning and physical infrastructure lifecycle, including data center concepts
  • The components of a cloud or container platform and how they fit together.
• At least one area of subject matter expertise (e.g. networking)
• Strong solution orientation: "Find a way"
• Experience with at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go)
• Strong ability to communicate architecture and rationale to both business and technical audiences in both written and spoken formats
• Ability and willingness to travel, primarily within the EU and US.

Nice to have

• Experience with Mirantis products and services
• Familiarity with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) as part of a broader architecture picture.
• Familiarity with Software-Defined Storage (SDS) as part of a broader architecture picture.
• Workload orchestration - how modern platforms schedule, route, and manage workloads across clusters and environments.
• Understanding of AI inference application requirements
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks or methods (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent).
• Exposure to hybrid or multi-cloud strategy and workload portability.
• Additional European language skills (beyond the required English)

Additional Information

What does Mirantis offer you?
- Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry;
- Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies;
- Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation;
- Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued;
- Professional development and training;
- Attend conferences and working groups;
- Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks;
- Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.

Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but limited to, relevant sill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location

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