Principal Solutions Architect, Illumio
$177-212k
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Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
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Automated enforcement against cyberattacks
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$177-212k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable every organization to realize a future without high-profile breaches.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive Experience: 10+ years in enterprise architecture, with a strong focus on security, cloud, networking, and containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration platforms, with hands-on experience in designing secure, scalable, and resilient architectures
- Security Knowledge: Deep understanding of Zero Trust frameworks, network segmentation, and related security principles
- Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience conveying technical concepts to a wide range of audiences, from engineers to executives
- Field Experience: Ability to understand field requirements and translate them into technical solutions, often working directly with customers in high-stakes, collaborative environments
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Principal Solution Architect with deep expertise in cloud architecture, containerization, networking, and security to drive our product’s field-facing reference architecture and support strategic initiatives
- This role will bridge technical and business domains, collaborating closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Field Enablement teams to ensure that Illumio’s solutions meet both current and future enterprise security needs
- Develop Reference Architectures: Collaborate with Product Management to create, document, and refine Illumio’s reference architectures, addressing complex environments including multi-cloud, hybrid, and containerized infrastructures
- Customer Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to customers, helping them architect secure solutions that leverage Illumio’s platform within diverse networking and cloud ecosystems
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate customer and field requirements into product features and capabilities
- Technical Enablement: Provide technical support to field teams, develop technical documentation, and conduct architecture reviews to ensure field-facing teams understand and effectively communicate the value of Illumio’s solutions
- Thought Leadership: Represent Illumio at industry events, webinars, and conferences, sharing insights and best practices on Zero Trust, cloud security, and modern architecture trends
Our take
Cybersecurity remains an ongoing battle, with evolving cyberthreats and ever-more determined cybercriminals, and major data breaches such as the SolarWinds hack have the potential to cause widespread disruption. Illumio is taking a different approach to most of the mainstream security companies, with a process called "microsegmentation". This makes it easier to guard companies from security breaches, and contain any breaches that occur.
Detection of viruses is no longer considered sufficient to keep companies and individuals safe. Illumio takes a “zero trust” approach, in which everything is viewed as suspicious, a similar approach to that which is used by the White House. The company operates at the cutting edge of microsegmentation, focusing on protecting cloud datacenters and workloads. With more and more companies moving to the cloud, this approach is crucial.
Illumio also protects endpoints, partnering with big players such as Citrix, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk. A collaboration with Appgate, a Zero Trust secure access company, delivers the industry's first integrated Zero Trust Network Access and Segmentation solution, which can reduce risk across hybrid infrastructure, and proves Illumio's dedication to innovating the space. Additionally, the company announced a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), that is tailored to assist federal agencies in reducing risk.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2021
$225m
SERIES F
Feb 2019
$65m
SERIES E
Total funding: $551.2m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage
- Health and Dependent Savings Accounts
- Life and Disability Programs
- Paid Parental Leave
- Voluntary Benefit Programs
- Company Sponsored Wellness Program
- Wellness Reimbursement Program
- Retirement Savings
- Equity Opportunities
- Paid time off and Paid Holidays
- Employee Incentive Program
Company values
- Seek Truth
- Run to challenges
- Bring your best
- Onwards Together
- Leverage differences
- Build trust
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
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Leadership
Andrew Rubin
(CEO)Started in Business Development, as an Analyst at VoiceNet Communications, and as a Director at VoiceNet. Worked at Cymtec Systems for over 8 years, promoted from VP of Sales to CEO. Seed Investor in Tory Burch, and Powermat. Current Strategic Advisor to Menlo Security, and Bolt.
PJ Kirner
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at Cornell. Worked as an Engineer Manager for over 6 years at Trilogy. Software Architect at Funkware for over 3 years. Was Principal Systems Engineer at Cluster File Systems. Distinguished Engineer for over 5 years at Juniper Networks. Was CTO of Cymtec Systems.
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