Principal Solutions Architect

Position:
Principal Solutions Architect

Company:
Solo.io

Location:
Europe or Africa or Asia

Employment type:
Full Time

Work Arrangement:
Remote

Short Summary:
The Solutions Architect is a senior, post-sales technical role focused on the success of our most important customers, acting as the primary technical owner for strategic accounts.

Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for accounts, developing a deep understanding of their specific use cases, architecture, and business goals.
- Take the lead on technical issue resolution, working with the support organization to ensure timely and effective solutions.
- Proactively drive product adoption by identifying new use cases and opportunities for the customer to gain more value from Solo.io's product suite.
- Consult with customers on best practices for using Solo.io products within their environment.
- Develop and deliver training sessions and workshops for customers.
- Act as the customer's advocate within Solo.io, providing feedback to the product management and engineering teams.
- Collaborate with the account team to identify and manage risks and opportunities related to product adoption, renewal, and expansion.

Requirement:
- 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as a Solutions Architect, Site Reliability Engineer, or Senior Support Engineer.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, service mesh (such as Istio), and API gateways (such as Envoy).
- Experience in a post-sales role with a focus on customer success and adoption.
- Proven ability to manage technical relationships with large, strategic customers.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences.
- Experience with scripting or programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Bash) is a plus.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits:
- At Solo, our culture is all about hiring great people, creating a fun and fast-paced work culture, and letting our teams work with our customers to successfully solve their challenges.
- Solo works collaboratively with our customers, partners, and open source communities to deliver technology innovation, technology solutions, architectural best-practices, and hands-on education.
- Solo uses a unique engagement model with our customers that allows us to quickly make them successful, and continue to work closely with them as their production environments grow.
- Solo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.