Solutions Architect, VAST Data
Microsoft Azure Strategic Alliance
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AI operating system
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AI operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower intelligent agents to store, think, communicate, and act.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years in solutions architecture, systems engineering, or technical alliance roles in the cloud and/or data infrastructure space
- Deep technical expertise in cloud architectures, data platforms, and AI/ML/HPC ecosystems—with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure technologies
- Proven experience working in or with strategic cloud alliances (preferably Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, storage, and large-scale data management
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage executives, field teams, and customers alike
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Solutions Architect to drive VAST Data’s strategic technical alliance with Microsoft Azure
- This individual will serve as the technical thought leader and trusted advisor, working closely with Azure product, engineering, and field teams to design, validate, and deliver joint solutions that bring the best of VAST + Azure to customers worldwide
- You will bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution—enabling joint solutions, validating architectures for AI/ML, HPC, and enterprise workloads, and ensuring field readiness across both organizations
- Act as the technical lead for the VAST–Azure alliance, defining solution architectures and reference designs
- Collaborate with Azure engineering, product management, and solution architects to validate integrations and optimize joint offerings
- Drive solution enablement by creating technical assets such as deployment guides, whitepapers, and reference architectures
- Partner with VAST and Azure field teams in strategic customer engagements, serving as a trusted solution advisor
- Identify opportunities to innovate joint AI/ML, HPC, and enterprise data solutions on Azure with VAST’s platform
- Influence VAST’s product roadmap with insights from Azure partnership initiatives and customer requirements
- Deliver technical enablement and training sessions to Azure and VAST go-to-market teams
- Represent VAST at joint events, webinars, and executive briefings with Microsoft
Our take
VAST Data is building what you might call the plumbing for the AI era - a purpose-built data platform that unifies storage, compute, and data services in a single, scalable system. With its disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) architecture, it allows companies to scale their storage independently from compute, meaning AI workloads can grow without behind held back by infrastructure bottlenecks. And their platform delivers flash-speed performance, multi-protocol access, and enterprsie-grade reliability, all while keeping costs reasonable.
This architecture is especially relevant now and the company has recently partnered with GMI CLoud as a key data infrastructure provider for GMI's ambitious new "AI factory" in Taiwan. The data centre is expected to house 7,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUS and will lean on VAST's exabyte-scale storage to handle data for model training, inference, and real-time processing.
On top of this, VAST has secured some major partnerships and deals that really position it strongly for the future of AI infrastructure. In November 2025, it struck a $1.17B agreement with CoreWeave, making VASt the primary data foundation for their GPU cloud. It also expanded its collaboration with Google CLoud to offer its AI Operating System as a fully managed service, allowsing global data access across on-prem and cloud environments using VAST DataSpace. These moves suggest VAST isn't just keeping up with AI demand but shaping the infrastructure that will power the next generation of large-scale, distributed intelligent systems.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2023
$118m
SERIES E
May 2021
$83m
SERIES D
Total funding: $381m
Leadership
Renen Hallak
(Co-Founder & CEO)BA and an MSc in Computer Science. Prior to co-founding VAST, they led the architecture and development of an all flash array at XtremIO as VP of R&D.
Shachar Fienblit
(Co-FOunder & Chief R&D Officer)BSC in Computer Software Engineering. Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the VP of Engineering at Kaminario before being promoted to CTO.
Jeff Denworth
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the SVP of Marketing at CTERA Networks and DDN Storage.
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