Purestorage
Portworx Delivery Architect
Sydney, Australia. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will support delivery and ongoing operations for Portworx customers in Australia and New Zealand. You will perform design workshops, deployment, day-2 operations, and break/fix support for Portworx Enterprise, PX-Backup, PX-DR, and modern virtualization.
What you will do
- Support design and architecture workshops and gather customer technical requirements
- Identify customer integration points with Kubernetes, storage, and backup solutions
- Document design decisions including storage, backup, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Design, install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters and Portworx-based solutions
- Deploy and operate Portworx solutions across customer Kubernetes environments
- Ensure Portworx is correctly configured and optimized against underlying storage platforms
- Lead API/microservices solution deployment and day-2 operations
- Support CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows
- Act as initial point of contact for Portworx support case inquiries and RFE requests
- Provide knowledge transfer and training sessions to customer teams
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments
- Experience building and operating containerized solutions
- Proven experience with DevOps practices
- Experience supporting enterprise customers directly
- In-depth experience deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments
- Proficiency with at least one of OpenShift, Rancher, Mirantis, or other orchestrators
- Linux system administration experience (RHEL, SLES, Debian, Ubuntu)
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing)
- Software-defined storage concepts (NFS, Block, iSCSI)
- CI/CD experience (Jenkins, GitOps, Argo, Airflow)
- Configuration Management/Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)
- Working knowledge of cloud IaaS environments such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform
Nice to have
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or CKAD qualification, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Scripting skills (Bash, Python, Ruby)
- Virtualization technologies (KVM, VMware) and version control systems (Git, SVN)
- Monitoring and logging tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
- Security fundamentals (SSL/TLS, Kubernetes Secrets, RBAC)
- Experience with the OpenStorage SDK (REST and gRPC interfaces)
- Experience with HA deployments for modern scale-out databases and data processing solutions (Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Elasticsearch)
- Cloud or Portworx-related certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Pure Certified Portworx Enterprise Professional)
Benefits
- Flexible time off
- Wellness resources
- Company-sponsored team events
Before you apply
- Must hold, or be eligible to obtain, an Australian Government security clearance
- Must have the right to work in Australia
About the company
Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform. Its strategic agenda spans hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem.