Principal Services Solutions Architect - Cloud Native & Kubernetes

Raleigh · Durham · Remote · Posted Sep 28, 2026

At a glance

As a Principal Services Solution Architect, you will spearhead the strategy and evolution of Advanced Services across our cloud-native and container domain, with focus on Portworx by Everpure, Kubernetes, and modern virtualization.
You will act as the ultimate technical authority for this domain, bridging market gaps and converting emerging customer challenges into scalable, high-impact offerings.
Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Delivery teams, your goal is to shape how enterprise clients modernize their infrastructure on the Everpure Platform.

Establish and own the global Advanced Services strategy for Kubernetes, cloud-native storage, modern virtualization, and Portworx by Everpure, aligning service innovations directly with enterprise product priorities and market expansion.
Design, pilot, and validate groundbreaking solution services through strategic customer engagements, rapidly transforming complex customer challenges into market-tested consulting frameworks.
Mature successful customer pilots into standardized, repeatable Professional Services packages by defining service scopes, delivery methodologies, success criteria, and technical enablement assets.
Serve as the definitive technical authority on container platforms, persistent storage, and modern virtualization across strategic enterprise opportunities alongside Sales, Architecture, and Engineering leaders.
Partner with regional and global delivery organizations to seamlessly transition newly created offerings into operational execution, providing early-stage specialist support and defining skill methodologies.

Proven track record in professional services, solution architecture, or technology transformation, with demonstrated capability in creating, evolving, and scaling repeatable enterprise consulting offerings.
Expert-level mastery of Kubernetes architectures, container platforms, Linux environments, and modern virtualization technologies.
Deep architectural understanding of persistent data, software-defined storage, data protection, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code automation in complex enterprise environments.
Exceptional customer-facing consultative capability with proven ability to influence across executive clients, Product, Engineering, Sales, and Delivery teams to achieve commercial viability.
Expected to work from the RTP office in compliance with Everpure's policies, unless on PTO, work travel, or other approved leave.