Akuity
Solutions Architect
Remote - North America
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaGoRustGitAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringProduct ManagementSalesCustomer SuccessCustomer SupportPublic SpeakingAdaptabilityArgo CD
About the role
- You will bring deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, and the Argo project and you won't be afraid to roll up your sleeves and write code.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve complex customer issues involving Kubernetes, Argo CD, and the Akuity Platform, escalating to the product engineering team when appropriate.
- Represent Akuity at conferences, webinars, and community events - sharing your expertise and growing Argo's adoption.
Responsibilities
- As a Solutions Architect at Akuity, you will sit at the intersection of pre-sales, customer success, technical support, and open-source engineering.
- Drive the technical discovery process, uncovering customer pain points, requirements, and key business objectives to align Akuity's solutions to their needs.
- Prepare and deliver high-impact presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and live demos that showcase Akuity's platform and GitOps best practices.
- Recognize patterns in customer issues and proactively contribute to our support playbook, documentation, and internal knowledge base.
- Develop tooling, integrations, and automation that improve the customer experience and extend the capabilities of the Akuity Platform.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and Sales to relay customer feedback and influence the product roadmap.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience working at the intersection of development and operations - a true practitioner of DevOps/platform engineering.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes configuring, deploying, and troubleshooting production-grade clusters across cloud providers (AWS/EKS, GCP/GKE, Azure/AKS) and/or on-prem.
- Meaningful professional experience with Argo CD, with knowledge of typical Argo CD patterns such as ApplicationSets, multi-cluster management, and advanced configuration.
- Experience in a fast-paced environment
Nice to have
- This role puts you at the very heart of that mission - working directly with the Argo maintainers who built it, contributing to the project itself, and helping the world's most innovative companies adopt GitOps at scale.
- We want to work with people from different backgrounds and different paths in life.
Skills
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps principles and patterns.
- Strong communicator who can convey complex technical concepts to both engineers and business stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
- Excellent people skills - collaborative, humble, adaptable, and with a sense of humor.
- Nice to Have
- Experience as an open-source maintainer or significant contributor, particularly in the Argo or broader CNCF ecosystem.
- Experience with Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, or Argo Events.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, or OCI-based GitOps workflows.
- Knowledge of identity management, clustering, SSO, and enterprise security patterns (RBAC, audit logging, etc.).
- Public-facing technical content such as conference talks, blog posts, webinars that demonstrate thought leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Akuity is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.
Company info
- You'll be expected to go beyond explaining our platform and actively contribute to Argo CD and related projects, shape our technical direction, and create lasting value for our customers and the broader community.
- Deliver outstanding technical support to open-source users and enterprise customers across multiple channels including chat, GitHub, forums, and calls.
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