A Field Technical Director is an architect-level role passionate about ensuring the best design & integration of Cohesity technology for large enterprise customers and those with fast-paced use cases. The mission of this role is to provide the customer's technical requirements are...

• Explored, understood, and gathered to ensure that the proposed architecture will meet their needs
• Translated into solutions that will be efficiently implemented and that will ensure repeat business

This position needs an expert on the core Cohesity product capabilities. Expertise in data centre design and practices—as well as data protection, distributed systems, and solutions at the web-scale—is critical.

 

HOW YOU WILL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:

• Present Cohesity technology (investigate) to customer technical leaders/experts and explain how it is applied in various use cases/scenarios.
• Conduct discovery workshops with customers to identify business objectives and document use cases/requirements and operational constraints.
• Develop high-level architectural alternatives, review with customers, and deliver (written) design plans to meet the customer's needs (especially "at scale") and include considerations of particular phases of the project (e.g. migration, operational cut-over) for Cohesity implementation teams to follow.
• Help plan and conduct technical demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs) with the account SE.
• Provide technical information for RFPs/RFIs.
• Provide technical review for all account team proposals.
• Liaison with Product Management and Engineering to represent customer/field requirements and resolve specific issues.
• Act as technical point of escalation for all architectural and design decisions.

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience in IT.
• Storage, Backup, Virtualization, Linux CLI.
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance.
• Database Protection and Recovery.
• Distributed Systems.
• Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Layer 2 Networking and Firewalls.
• Scripting / Automation.
• Visio or equivalent application.
• Superb communication and project-related skills are also required.
• Strong verbal communication/presentation skills.
• Strong written skills and the ability to document.
• Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills.
• The ability to work multi-functionally and run meetings to achieve a plan.
• The ability to lead projects and to strive for a deadline.

Expected Travel:

60%