Remote Solution Architect

Description:

• Mirantis is seeking a Consulting Architect to join their Professional Services organization.
• In this role, you will guide clients from their current state to strategic solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• You will collaborate closely with Services, Product Management, Marketing, and Engineering to ensure successful delivery and continuous improvement of Mirantis solutions.
• This role requires technical thought leadership and offers opportunities for professional growth across diverse business and technology domains.
• This role will be based remotely in the US.
• Responsibilities include leading the delivery of services for strategic clients, ensuring solutions meet business objectives, building trusted relationships with clients, engaging stakeholders from engineering teams to the CxO level, representing client needs internally, designing and refining service solutions based on client interactions, collaborating with Services leadership and internal teams to develop offerings, and traveling up to 50% to support client engagement and service delivery.

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, software development practices, application architecture, and DevOps philosophies is required.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, public cloud services, automation, CI/CD tooling, and OSS monitoring/logging systems is necessary.
• Awareness of industry trends, regulatory requirements, and the competitive cloud infrastructure landscape is essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including public speaking, are required.
• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team is necessary.
• Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in client-facing roles such as consultant, architect, or similar.
• Proven experience collaborating with senior IT and engineering leadership, including CIOs and CTOs, is required.
• Demonstrated thought leadership through client interactions, conference presentations, publications, or similar contributions is necessary.

Benefits:

• Mirantis offers the opportunity to work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry.
• Employees will work with exceptionally passionate, talented, and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.
• Employees will be part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.
• The company values openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth in a high-energy environment.
• Professional development and training opportunities are provided.
• Employees can attend conferences and working groups.
• A customized workstation (macOS, Windows) is offered.
• Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks are part of the culture.
• A competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan is provided, with a salary range of $160,000-$175,000 per year.