Senior Solutions Architect, WEKA
Travel as needed
AI-native data platform
Open for applications
AI-native data platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Travel as needed
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the possibilities of the future by eradicating the compromises of the past.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with a strong focus on customer experience
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, including excellent documentation skills
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations within Enterprise environments, focusing on mission-critical infrastructure
- Experience with automation tools/cluster management such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Bright, Jenkins, or xcat
- Knowledge and experience with scripting languages like Python, Bash, or Perl
- Experience with Source Code Control Systems like GitHub and git
- Experience with Ethernet or InfiniBand networking, particularly 100+Gb networks
- Experience with performance monitoring/tuning Linux systems
- Experience with HPC environments, including knowledge of HPC cluster management tools
- Experience with Parallel Filesystems (Lustre, GPFS/SpectrumScale, DDN)
- Familiar with SDS (Software-Defined Storage)
- Hands-on administration/operation knowledge of Kubernetes / Containerized Workloads
- Hands-on experience in Linux Systems Administration
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent working experience
- Strong interpersonal skills for technical presentations, architectural designs, and being a trusted advisor to customers (experience in sales, consulting, or Customer Success)
- Provides ad-hoc knowledge transfers, develops handover materials, and guides customers during deployments
- Willingness to travel as needed
What the job involves
- As a Professional Services Sr. Solutions Architect at WEKA, you will be responsible for delivering enterprise-class solutions and services to our customers and partners worldwide
- You will become an integral and critical component of the delivery and installation process for WEKA Products, including navigating our customers through the initial onboarding steps into WEKA
- The Senior Solutions Architect at WEKA will not only plan and install our products but also define, develop, and test automation to ensure that deploying our products is a fast, predictable, scalable, and easy experience for customers and partners. You will be focused on our customers throughout the US
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for relationships with WEKA Sales, Pre-Sales, Engineering, Product Management, other internal groups, customers, and partners worldwide
- You’ll work with diverse customers across many industries and environments across different enterprise verticals and sectors, implementing AI, HPC, and other state-of-the-art WEKA environments, both on-prem or public cloud
- The Senior Professional Solutions Architect is responsible for structured and unstructured tasks, focusing on assisting customers in achieving their objectives
- Responsible for the experience from the sale of the WEKA product to a full deployment to a production stage, ensuring customers have a positive experience throughout the Onboarding process
- Manages the project of installing the WEKA product, including risk assessment, planning, deployment scheduling, and reporting status to our customers and partners
- Responsible for documentation of solution details, including diagrams and specifications, focusing on translating undefined requirements into end-to-end solutions
- Utilizes open-source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project
- Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow
- Collaborates with project stakeholders to scope the most effective way to tackle complex technological infrastructure challenges
- Performs incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize human errors
- Primary responsibilities will include deploying and managing AI/HPC infrastructure in Linux-based environments for new and existing customers
Our take
For data-driven organizations, WEKA supplies a platform for storing, processing and managing data across the cloud and on-prem. As an AI-native platform, it supports the transformation of data silos into pipelines capable of fuelling next-gen workloads like AI and HPC.
With traditional infrastructure often hindering data-led processes rather than helping them, WEKA is somewhat of a breath of fresh air for its customers. The company's comprehensive approach, alongside support for both Windows and Linux, enables it to serve many types of organization including those that are just taking off.
WEKA does have a few notable competitors, such as VAST Data, but has stood out thus far by delivering the fastest file system on the market. It has also raised considerable funding, which supports expanded product offerings, and has made notable partnerships such as with NVIDIA.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$140m
SERIES E
Nov 2022
$135m
SERIES D
Total funding: $465.1m
Company benefits
- Care package received upon hire: backpack, multiple shirts etc.
- 401(k)
- Stock options available
- Cellular phone plan coverage
- On and off-location meal perks
- Dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- Work-related travel reimbursement
- Flexible spending account
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- A tech stack with Laptop or PC of choice, up to 2 monitors, office phone, headset
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Career development
- At least one offsite event per quarter with spontaneous office gatherings regularly
Company HQ
Pruneyard / Dry Creek, Campbell, CA
Leadership
Liran Zvibel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. Previously Software Engineer at InSightec for 1 year and Co-Founder & VP R&D at Fusic for 3 years.
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