About Mirantis
Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.
Job Description
We are seeking a Consulting Architect with deep expertise in platform engineering, Kubernetes, and AI solutions to help customers design, implement, and optimize open source solutions to support their business objectives. This role is not just about execution—you will have a high degree of autonomy to define direction, shape strategy, and influence the future of cutting-edge technologies.
As part of our next-generation innovation and strategy team, you will work on new and innovative products, helping customers adopt open source solutions for cloud infrastructure, AI, and cloud-native computing. You will engage in both pre-sales and post-sales consulting, guiding customers through complex technology decisions, presenting a compelling vision, and driving successful outcomes.
We’re looking for someone who thrives in uncertainty, takes risks, and challenges conventional thinking, all while working closely with customers to implement scalable, forward-thinking solutions.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Customer Engagement & Pre-Sales:
Lead visionary discussions with customers, helping them navigate new and evolving open source technologies.
Define and shape the direction of Mirantis’ solutions, working closely with colleagues and leaders across the company to align with our strategy.
Build relationships with both technical and business audiences, translating emerging technologies into actionable strategies.
Solution Delivery & Innovation:
Design, Implement, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native and AI/ML workloads in Kubernetes and public cloud environments.
Help customers scale infrastructure, modernize application architectures, and adopt next-generation AI and cloud solutions.
Deliver workshops, training, and enablement programs to accelerate customer adoption of new and emerging technologies.
Engage with open source communities, contribute to projects, and advocate for customer needs in upstream development.
Proven experience in open source ecosystems (e.g., OpenStack, CNCF, LF AI & Data, OpenInfra).
Expertise in Kubernetes and AI/ML platforms (e.g., Kubeflow, Ray, MLflow).
Passion for emerging technologies, next-generation cloud strategies, and AI infrastructure.
Strong ability to define direction, take ownership, and drive innovation in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Hands-on experience with cloud automation, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence both engineers and executives.
Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or professional services with a consultative approach.
Preferred Qualifications
Active contributions to open source projects, working groups, or governance bodies.
Experience speaking at OpenStack Summit, KubeCon, AI Summit, or similar industry events.
Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies using open source technologies.
Additional Information
Why you’ll love Mirantis
- Work with an established leader in the cloud infrastructure industry.
- Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.
- Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.
- Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued.
- Receive a competitive compensation package with strong benefits plan.
- We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!
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We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!
Skills Required
- Proven experience in open source ecosystems, such as OpenStack, CNCF, LF AI & Data, or OpenInfra
- Expertise in Kubernetes and AI/ML platforms, such as Kubeflow, Ray, or MLflow
- Experience with cloud automation, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code, including Terraform, Ansible, or Helm
- Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills with the ability to influence engineers and executives
- Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or professional services with a consultative approach
- Passion for emerging technologies, next-generation cloud strategies, and AI infrastructure
- Ability to define direction, take ownership, and drive innovation in a rapidly evolving environment
- Active contributions to open source projects, working groups, or governance bodies
- Experience speaking at OpenStack Summit, KubeCon, AI Summit, or similar industry events
- Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies using open source technologies
Mirantis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mirantis and has not been reviewed or approved by Mirantis.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair-to-good and competitive for certain technical and senior roles, and compensation is often viewed as a relative strength. Overall packages can feel solid in context, even if not universally top-of-market.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, with employer-verified listings and mentions of strong coverage in practice. Core offerings align with what tech employees typically expect and are sometimes called out as a highlight.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include PTO, sick time, paid holidays, bereavement leave, and generous parental leave. These provisions are frequently characterized as generous and supportive of work-life balance.
Mirantis Insights
What We Do
We are dedicated to helping organizations increase developer productivity and ship code faster on public and private clouds. We provide a ZeroOps experience to remove the stress of managing cloud native infrastructure by combining software and automation tools with our cloud native expertise to deliver the industry's leading secure cloud platforms. Our capabilities allow us to provide a secure and reliable cloud native platform that includes validated FIPS-140-2 Encryption and DISA STIG ready capabilities. Who do we serve? We serve a wide range of industries, building on our extensive customer experience to provide distinct value in specific verticals including Financial Services, Government & Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Telecommunications. Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Inmarsat, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Societe Generale, Splunk, and S&P Global. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
