Senior Solutions Architect – RapidScale

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead technical discovery sessions with clients to identify business objectives, challenges, and motivations.

• Convert requirements into customized, outcome-driven cloud and infrastructure solutions.

• Facilitate workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and interviews with stakeholders.

• Design hybrid and multi-cloud environments that meet performance, availability, security, and compliance standards.

• Work together to create multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions that span both hosted and public cloud services.

• Serve as the technical lead throughout the sales process, from discovery to transition.

• Collaborate with sales, product, and specialized teams to ensure solutions align with account strategies.

• Develop security architectures that include MDR, SOCaaS, IAM, SIEM/SOAR, and vulnerability management.

• Design secure, high-performance networks incorporating SD-WAN, VPN, DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls across both on-premises and cloud environments.

⛳️ Requirements

• BA/BS Degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, or MS Degree with 4+ years of experience, or Ph.D. with one year of experience, or 10 years of overall experience without a degree.

• Professional Level Public Cloud Certification (AWS, Azure, Google).

• Proven experience working within a sales team context.

• Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Strong ability to communicate and present complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences clearly.

• In-depth knowledge of private cloud and data center architectures (VMware, Citrix, storage, networking).

• Comprehensive understanding of AWS/Azure/GCP and their distinctions from traditional IT methods.

• Experience with managed security services and the design of secure, compliant architectures.

• Strong grasp of hybrid connectivity, SD-WAN, VPN, DNS, and firewalls.

• Design expertise in SAN and NAS, backup and data protection strategies, and technologies for replication and disaster recovery.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and current deployment practices is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• The Company allows eligible employees the flexibility to take as much paid vacation as they believe is appropriate in relation to their responsibilities, the company’s needs, and its obligations.

• Seven paid holidays are provided throughout the calendar year.

• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness leave annually for personal wellness or that of family members.

• Additional paid time off is available for bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteering, military service, and parental leave.

• Comprehensive health care insurance, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Retirement planning options through a 401(k) plan.

• Paid days off, including sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO.