What You Bring

• 15+ years overall experience, including 8+ years as a handson cloud architect at enterprise scale
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture for multi-region, multi-account or multi-subscription cloud estates, in a large enterprise or a consulting / professional services organization
• Expert-level AWS and Azure; GCP strongly preferred. Genuine depth across compute, storage, networking, identity, and encryption / key management
• Deep understanding of enterprise data protection and cyber resilience RTO and RPO modelling, immutability, backup and recovery design, isolated and air-gapped recovery
• Working fluency in cloud security and compliance frameworks and how they constrain design in regulated industries
• Strong automation background infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep), scripting (Python, PowerShell), API-first integration, and CI/CD (Strong Automation Background)
• A track record of influence without authority across a global, matrixed organization and multiple time zones
• Executive-grade communication credible with a customer’s CIO and their principal engineer on the same day
• Evidence of building reusable technical IP, not only delivering successful projects
• The ability to learn a complex new platform to expert depth, quickly. Prior Rubrik experience is not required
• Occasional travel
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Nice to have

• Kubernetes and containerized workload architecture; cloud-native and managed database platforms
• SaaS data protection experience (Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and similar)
• Prior Principal, Distinguished, or Technical Director title within a vendor professional services organization or a major systems integrator
• Professional or expert-level certifications (AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent)
• An established public technical presence — talks, writing, open source, or community leadership
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