Pure Storage
Cloud Native Architect, Portworx - NY/NJ
$156K–$258K
New York, New York +3 · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York
Newark, New Jersey
New Jersey, United States
New York, United States - Experience
- 5+ years as a customer-facing senior-level technical architect; 5+ years of Linux administration and/or development; 3+ years of 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 deploying and operating stateful containerized applications across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Present technical solutions, simplify complex problems, and guide customer outcomes through technical leadership.
- Coach and influence teams and partners; travel regionally as needed, up to 60%.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of customer-facing senior-level technical architect experience.
- 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 a KCNA or higher certification.
- Certification-level fluency in a Kubernetes orchestration environment, cloud IaaS, DevOps tools and concepts, and data engineering, big data, and database operations.
Pay
$156,100 — $257,600 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Linux, OpenShift, Rancher, VMware, AWS, Azure, Terraform
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