Software Architect/Solution Architect/ GSI

As a Partner Development Solution Architect focused on GSI partners within Aqua Security, you will have the opportunity to deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Aqua Platform across the partner community. Your broad responsibilities will include: owning the technical engagement with strategic partners, position aqua to be part of partner offerings, and assist with the creation of new technical strategies to help partners build and increase their application security practice business. You will be responsible for providing subject-matter expertise on the security of running cloud native workloads, which are rapidly being adopted in enterprise deployments. You will also drive technical relationships with all stakeholders and support sales opportunities. You will also work closely with the internal sales and partner sales team throughout the sales process to ensure all of the partners’ technical needs are understood and met with the best possible solution.

Responsibilities:

The ideal person will have excellent communications skills and be able to translate technical requirements for a non-technical audience. This person can multi-task, is self-motivated, while still interacting well with a team; is highly organized with high energy level and can-do attitude. Required skills include:

• Experience as a sales engineer or solution architect, working with enterprise software products or services.
• Ability to assess partner and customer requirements, identify business problems, and demonstrate proposed solutions.
• Ability to present at technical meetups.
• Ability to work with partners and conduct technical workshops
• Recent familiarity or hands-on experience with:

- Linux distributions, Windows Server

- Networking configurations, routing, firewalling

- DevOps eco-system: CI/CD tools, datacenter automation, open source tools like Jenkins

- Cloud computing environments (AWS, Azure, and Google Compute)

- Container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Mesos

-Knowledge of general security practices & DevSecOps

• Up to 25% travel is expected. The ideal candidate will be located in Hyderabad, India

Requirements:

• 7+ years of hands on implementation or consulting experience
• 3+ years in a customer and or partner facing roles
• Experience working with end users or developer communities
• Experience working effectively across internal and external organizations
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Strong verbal and written communications
• BS degree or equivalent experience required