Staff Solutions Architect [REMOTE] at Upbound - Job Posting

Upbound is seeking a Staff Solutions Architect to join their go-to-market team. This role is focused on the post-sales implementation of Upbound's products and the adoption of solutions. The Staff Solutions Architect will play a crucial role in driving and executing the technical implementation of Upbound's products and solutions.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the pre-sales team to ensure a smooth transition for customers, understand customer environments, and design suitable architectures. They will also troubleshoot technical challenges, write code, and contribute to improving customer deployments.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the pre-sales team for smooth customer transitions.
• Understand customer requirements and design appropriate solutions.
• Ensure successful adoption of Upbound and Crossplane technology.
• Perform technical discovery and contribute to Statements of Work.
• Troubleshoot and solve technical challenges.
• Improve customer deployments by writing code and fixing bugs.
• Build and maintain cloud native reference platforms.
• Work cross-departmentally to find solutions.
• Represent customer needs internally.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor.

Requirements:

• Experience writing and maintaining code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API.
• Experience managing production Kubernetes deployments.
• Background in platform engineering/SRE with building an IDP.
• Understanding of highly scaled and reliable services in major cloud providers.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience working with customers to solve technical issues.
• Experience deploying Cloud Native Landscape projects into production.
• Experience with modern operational and application delivery tools.
• Programming skills in a modern language (Go is ideal).
• Ability to work closely with diverse teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Upbound offers:

• Opportunity to work remotely.