Cloud Solution Architect, Central Enterprise (Remote)
About the Role
CrowdStrike is seeking a Cloud Solution Architect with significant Cloud architecture best practices and cybersecurity domain expertise that will align to cover our US Central Enterprise team. As a Cloud Solution Architect, you will establish yourself as a trusted advisor on CrowdStrike's cloud security solutions and cloud integrations for the local CrowdStrike Sales teams, Customers, and Partners within your territory.
As a CrowdStrike Cloud Solution Architect, you will be the authority on our cybersecurity offerings for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and container orchestration solutions like Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
This position will collaborate with a diverse group of teams internal to CrowdStrike, across our strategic cloud partners, and in various open source communities and standard bodies relating to secure cloud computing. Your contributions will span from helping establish and define CrowdStrike’s cloud partner initiatives and programs' technical nature, creating technical reference architectures, building training for CrowdStrike technical staff, and cloud sales enablement.
Responsibilities:
Ensure effective technical field sales coverage of the account base.
Engage with core account sales teams to drive strategic account plans and objectives.
Collaborate cross-functionally to establish key stakeholders and business-line owners.
Act as an interface between field/customer requirements and CrowdStrike Product and Engineering teams.
Provide feedback to engineering teams on customer requirements and customer adoption of our products to drive our products' customer adoption.
Drive customer and partner meetings through sales calls, relationship building, solution selling, and problem resolution.
Help build field enablement documentation and training that is sector-specific.
Be a cloud subject matter expert and present at industry conferences and CrowdStrike marketing events
Provide guidance on complicated technical issues utilizing in-depth knowledge of the company, products, industry, and solutions.
Deliver development and improvement of methods, techniques, and evaluation processes for CrowdStrike solutions.
Requirements:
5+ years or equivalent experience in consulting or sales engineering roles – particularly in the areas of Cloud and Cyber Security.
Technical sales experience in the Cloud Security Posture Management solutions
Expertise in DevOps and technologies such as Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, and OpenShift.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, or GCP Cloud Deployment Manager Templates
Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, including configuration and administration of security features and services.
Strong understanding of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems as well as virtualized and Containerized workloads
Technical sales experience in the Cloud Workload Protection security solutions
Ability to understand complex cloud architectures and eco-systems.
Technical understanding of incident response, computer forensics, network administration, management, and endpoint security technologies concerning cloud strategy.
Motivated with excellent organizational skills.
Strong communicator - written, verbal, and presentation.
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to implement systematic approaches to scale within a fast-paced environment.
Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Travel in the designated region as needed.
Preference is to live in CST time zone but is not required.
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