Cloud Native Architect, Portworx - North Central
Chicago · Cincinnati · Columbus · Detroit · Minneapolis · Illinois · Michigan · Minnesota · Ohio · Wisconsin · USD 156,100-234,500 / year · 3+ years experience · Posted Oct 12, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Location
- Chicago · Cincinnati · Columbus · Detroit · Minneapolis · Illinois · Michigan · Minnesota · Ohio · Wisconsin
- Salary
- USD 156,100-234,500 / year · Base salary
About the role
- The Portworx Cloud Native Architect is a customer-facing role responsible for providing deep technical and business expertise to customers who want to run stateful applications in containers and automate 'Day 2' data management workflows.
Responsibilities
- Provide deep technical and business expertise to customers who want to run stateful applications in containers and automate 'Day 2' data management workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years' experience as a customer facing senior-level technical architect.
- Charismatic, confident, and likable self-starter with a track record of success on stage, in the spotlight, and with customers.
- Team oriented leader that is able to coach and drive desired behavior through influence rather than title.
- 5+ years of Linux Administration and/or Linux development experience with an industry recognized administration-level or higher certification.
- 3+ years of Kubernetes Administration experience and a KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) or above certification.
- Certification-level fluency in OpenShift, Rancher, or other Kubernetes orchestration environment.
- Certification-level fluency in Cloud IaaS environments such as VMware, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and OpenStack.
- Certification-level fluency with DevOps concepts and hands-on experience with associated tools, such as; Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD pipeline applications.
- Certification-level fluency in data engineering, big data, and database operations, delivery and operational services.
- Ability to travel as needed regionally (up-to 50%)
Benefits
- flexible time off
- wellness resources
- company-sponsored team events
Workplace
- Ability to travel as needed regionally (up-to 50%)
Skills
- Linux
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Rancher
- VMware
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- OpenStack
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Docker
