Enterprise Architect – Infrastructure Advisory _ remote in the US

We are seeking a Systems Architect whose focus is on the whole: someone who aligns the technology landscape of enterprise customers with their business objectives. You will work with client leadership and technical teams to understand where a business is trying to go, assess the current-state landscape, and shape a coherent target-state architecture and roadmap that moves technology decisions in service of business outcomes.

This is a role about synthesis and judgment. You are well versed across a broad range of technologies — cloud, containers, operating systems, platform components, and AI — but your value is in seeing how they fit together into a system that serves the enterprise, weighing trade-offs across cost, risk, operational fit, and time-to-value, and communicating those choices clearly to both executives and engineers.

What matters most is the ability to think holistically about business-technology alignment and to reason credibly across the technology domains below.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with Mirantis customers, Mirantis colleagues, stakeholders, partners, vendors and other resources on improving the customer’s experience
• Assess and understand the customer’s business strategy, drivers, and constraints

  • Current-state technology landscapes 

  • Application portfolio
  • External drivers such as required certifications, existing corporate resources
  • Pain points and challenges
• Collaborate with the customer to address shortcomings of the current state
• Employ Mirantis products and experience to transform the existing landscape into a coherent, stable, secure, and future proof platform 
• For recommendations made provide defensible reasoning to help the customer understand why the recommendations have been made.
• Become a trusted advisor of the customer
• Work with Mirantis product to further development and eliminate shortcomings
• Present architectures, roadmaps, and rationale to audiences ranging from customer executives to hands-on engineers.
• Engage on-site with customers across regions as part of the discovery, design, and advisory process.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Extensive architecture and engineering experience across infrastructure or platform engineering, including customer-facing architecture or advisory experience

Required Skills/Abilities: 

• A demonstrated ability to think about the enterprise as a whole — connecting technology decisions to business goals — rather than working only at the level of individual systems.
• Broad, credible fluency across a range of technologies, including:

  • Private cloud platforms including OpenStack

  • Kubernetes-based container platforms
  • Multi-cluster management concepts and tooling
  • Workload requirements
  • VMware estate modernization — enough understanding of vSphere/VMware environments to advise enterprises on virtualization strategy and migration paths as they modernize toward open platforms.
  • Bare-metal provisioning and physical infrastructure lifecycle, including data center concepts
  • The components of a cloud or container platform and how they fit together.
• At least one area of subject matter expertise (e.g. networking)
• Strong solution orientation: “Find a way”
• Experience with at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Go)
• Strong ability to communicate architecture and rationale to both business and technical audiences in both written and spoken formats
• Ability and willingness to travel, primarily within the EU and US.

Nice to have

• Experience with Mirantis products and services
• Familiarity with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) as part of a broader architecture picture.
• Familiarity with Software-Defined Storage (SDS) as part of a broader architecture picture.
• Workload orchestration — how modern platforms schedule, route, and manage workloads across clusters and environments.
• Understanding of AI inference application requirements
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks or methods (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent).
• Exposure to hybrid or multi-cloud strategy and workload portability.
• Additional European language skills (beyond the required English)