Enterprise Architect

Who you are

• 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
• 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
• 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)

What the job involves

• We are seeking an Enterprise 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
• 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