Pure Storage
Cloud Native Architect, Portworx - North Central
$156K–$234K
Chicago, Illinois +9 · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
Cincinnati, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Detroit, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Illinois, United States
Michigan, United States
Minnesota, United States
Ohio, United States
Wisconsin, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in customer-facing senior-level technical architecture; 5+ years in Linux administration and/or development; 3+ years in Kubernetes administration.
About the job
Provides customer-facing technical and business expertise to help customers run stateful applications on Kubernetes and automate Day 2 data-management workflows.
What you'll do
- Advise customers on containerized stateful applications and data-management workflows.
- Present technical solutions and simplify complex problems to support customer outcomes.
- Coach and influence teams and customers; travel regionally as needed, up to 50%.
What they ask for
- 5+ years as a customer-facing senior-level technical architect.
- 5+ years of Linux administration and/or development experience, with an industry-recognized administration-level or higher certification.
- 3+ years of Kubernetes administration experience and KCNA or above certification.
- Certification-level fluency in a Kubernetes orchestration environment, cloud IaaS, DevOps concepts and tools, and data engineering, big data, and database operations.
Pay
$156,100 — $234,500 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Linux, OpenShift, Rancher, VMware, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
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