Solutions Architect - Cloudflare One About Solutions Engineering at Cloudflare The Pre-Sales Solution Engineering organization owns the technical sale of the Cloudflare solution portfolio, ensuring maximal business value, fit-for-purpose solution design and adoption roadmap for our customers. Solutions Engineering is made up of individuals from a wide range of backgrounds - from Financial Consulting to Product Management, Customer Support to Software Engineering, and we are serious about building a diverse, experienced and curious team. What you'll do as a Solutions Architect
The Solutions Architect is a senior technical leadership role. You are a customer facing hands-on technologist with credibility built on domain expertise across Cloudflare portfolio, with key focus on the Cloudflare One portfolio. You should have solid experience in influencing enterprise architecture design across various senior buyer personas both at customers and partner organizations. Your role will be to convince these decision makers of the long term value of thinking of Cloudflare as a strategic technology partner.
As a Solutions Architect, you are the technical customer advocate within Cloudflare. To aid your customers, you will work closely with every team at Cloudflare, from Sales and Product, through to Engineering and Customer Support. Your goal of customer success should drive you through the entire organization as you seek out and create scalable solutions for your customer's needs.
You will work as a part of a highly visible structured pursuit team attached to designated strategic accounts, working to understand their unique business challenges and priorities with a goal of defining short and long term solution architecture with Cloudflare as a centerpiece. An equally important component of this role is the expectation that you scale your expertise and knowledge across the wider Pre Sales Solution Engineering organization
Specifically, we are looking for you to:
- Build and maintain the long term technical relationship of key accounts, ensuring the successful design, proof and adoption of Cloudflare as a part of the customers critical infrastructure.
- Identify and drive strategic conversations with key stakeholders with the purpose of increasing our reputation and authority within the business, and further establishing our footprint within the customers landscape.
- Be the voice of the customer, engaging and influencing Product Management and Product Roadmap to serve their needs.
- Demonstrate your expertise of Cloudflare within your field through the creation of professional content, including white papers, reference architectures, blog posts.
- Represent and Evangelize Cloudflare externally at Developer, Community, Technology, Cybersecurity and Industry focused events with thought leadership and expertise.
- Apply in-depth vertical knowledge or domain expertise. Advise on best practices.
Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience
- 7+ years of deployment experience in similar role or experience in a technical leadership role
- Previous experience as a solution architect, consultant or technical marketing engineer building, architecting or deploying security solutions
- Good understanding of AI and its applicability to today's enterprise landscape
- Proven track record using it to help drive revenue.
- Working knowledge of the broader threat landscape and the ability to distill technology trends, and explain complex behaviors in simple terms
- Proven experience working with customers and partners in successful design and deployment of solutions
- Ability to juggle and successfully drive projects with customers, prospects, and partners.
- Experience with cloud computing solutions implementations including Microsoft 365, Azure, Google, AWS.
- Proven hands-on experience with information security solutions such as Web Proxy, NGFW, Security Gateways, SIEMs, SAML/SSO, DLP, Data security and protection technologies such as HSM, Tokenization & encryption gateways.
- Experience working with Identity Providers such as Entra AD, Okta, Ping, OneLogin, etc.
- Knowledge of web application programming XML, REST/SOAP API's, REST, JSON,
- Strong knowledge of LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, OAuth/OpenID Connect, tSSO, RBAC
- Experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design and implementations including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models.
- Strong knowledge of Security Architecture, Design and Operations
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and IAC products like Terraform
- Knowledge of security and cryptography.
- Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies and containerization
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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company on a mission to help build a better Internet. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
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