Staff Architect

**Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.**

**The Opportunity**

The Nutanix Database Solutions Engineering team is looking for a seasoned Database Solution
Architect to join our team focused on bringing Hybrid and multi-cloud Database-as-a-Service to
expertise with a keen understanding of how to address the critical business needs of enterprise
customers through Nutanix products and solutions. This role is a high-impact and high-visibility
one. As customers continue their hybrid cloud journey, architect-level guidance is critical to
their success.
The architect must be a highly organized, thorough, and motivated professional who
understands the importance of being a strong team player and leader when forging a solution
and liaising with customers. A deep technical expertise in traditional and next-generation
database technologies—including containerized and cloud-native database workloads is a
must.
This role is critical to designing scalable, secure, and resilient data architectures that align with
lead innovation while ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and performance across diverse
deployment models

**About the Team**

Nutanix Database Engineering Solutions team is responsible for development/test of Best
Practices and Reference Architecture guides regarding Databases on Nutanix, as well as helping
out with pre and post-sales support.
We work in a collaborative environment where everyone is encouraged to try new things and
come up with new solutions.
Within the DB Engineering Solutions team, you'll find no shortage of challenging problems to
work on.

**Your Role**
- Design and implement robust, high-performing, and future-ready database
architectures that support operational, transactional, and analytical workloads.
- Research and assess next-gen database platforms (e.g., vector databases, graph
databases, time-series DBs, real-time analytics engines) and recommend adoption
paths.
- Develop data strategies that span on-prem, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hybrid
environments, including serverless and distributed database models.
- Ensure database solutions comply with data governance, privacy, and security
regulations
- Champion innovation by researching new technologies, database engine updates
and any other relevant ecosystem update.
- Develop and maintain enterprise-grade database DR strategies, including
backup/recovery plans, replication, failover mechanisms, and cross-region
availability.
- Partner with internal teams, prospects, and customers to expertly design and deploy
database workloads on the Nutanix platform, fostering collaboration, technical
excellence, and customer success at every stage.
- Collaborate with Nutanix’s Engineering by developing and running benchmarks,
providing SWOT analysis of the Nutanix Platform in order enhance the Nutanix’s
offerings.
- Develop robust automation solutions for database provisioning, health monitoring,
and lifecycle management to drive operational efficiency, consistency, and
scalability.
- Partner with Nutanix sales teams to support large-scale and strategic opportunities,
providing technical expertise and solution alignment to drive customer value and
deal success.
- Provide help to install, support, and maintain Nutanix solutions during strategic
Proof of Concept (POC) deployments.
- Be part of a global team of SME’s providing help during customer escalations
processes.
- Achieve at least Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure
(NCP-MCI) certification within the first year to enhance expertise in customer
experience management and establish credibility.

**What You Will Bring**
- 8+ years’ experience in a customer-facing technical role - minimum of 5 years in
database architecture, with hands-on experience in both relational and non
- relational database systems, such as Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB,
etc.
- 5+ years of Relational Database implementation, operations and/or solution
deployment experience in a business-critical, high-availability context.
- Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: Server Virtualization;
Networking, Storage, Platform and Database Performance tuning.
- Experience with deployments of databases on Kubernetes as a big plus
- Hands on experience with Benchmarking tools like HammerDB, Benchmark Factory,
PgBench, SLOB, cnp-bench or others.
- Experience in writing automation scripts (python, PowerShell) and experience with
infrastructure automation frameworks such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet and similar
Knowledge of public cloud database solutions/offerings like AWS RDS is a plus.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills, as well as excellent presentation
skills.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

**Work Arrangement**

Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams