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.

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