[Remote] Field Technical Director | MidAtlantic at Cohesity

Washington, Utah, United States

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Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 15+ years of experience in IT
  • Experience in storage, backup, virtualization, Linux CLI
  • Cyber-security & cyber resilience
  • Additional experience in disaster recovery/business continuity
  • Database protection and recovery
  • Distributed systems
  • Public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Layer 2 networking and firewalls
  • Scripting / automation
  • Visio or equivalent application
  • Excellent communication and project-related skills
  • Strong verbal communication/presentation skills
  • Strong written skills and ability to create documentation
  • Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and run meetings to achieve goals

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the strategic technical leader for assigned accounts
  • Influence both technical strategy and business outcomes
  • Present Cohesity technology to customer executives, technical leaders/experts, and explain how it is applied in various use-cases/scenarios
  • Conduct discovery workshops with the customer to identify business objectives, document use cases/requirements, and operational constraints
  • Develop high-level architectural alternatives, review with customers, and deliver (written) design plans to meet the customer’s needs (especially “at scale”) and includes considerations of special phases of the project (e.g. migration, operational cut-over) for Cohesity implementation teams to follow
  • Help plan and conduct technical demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs) with the account
  • Provide technical information for RFPs/RFIs
  • Provide technical review for all account team proposals
  • Liaison with Product Management and Engineering to represent customer/field requirements and resolve specific issues
  • Lead cross-functional “tiger teams” to address strategic customer challenges and opportunities
  • Mentor SEs and other technical team members to raise the bar for technical excellence in your region
  • Act as technical point of escalation for all architectural and design decisions
  • Act as a leader in your territory and across the FTD squad
  • Drive results leading product-focused cross-functional teams
  • Collaborate with other teams to achieve business objectives
  • Participate in strategic planning and decision-making processes
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends and developments in IT and data security
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation and knowledge base
  • Participate in training and professional development opportunities to enhance technical skills
  • Represent Cohesity and its products in a professional and positive manner

Skills

Cohesity

Data management solutions for enterprises

About Cohesity

Cohesity specializes in data management solutions for data centers and cloud environments. Its main products, the Cohesity DataPlatform and Cohesity DataProtect, help businesses consolidate tasks like backup, recovery, and data storage into one platform, making it easier to manage large amounts of data while reducing complexity and costs. Unlike many competitors, Cohesity focuses on simplifying data management for medium to large enterprises across various industries, including finance and healthcare. The company's goal is to help businesses manage, protect, and gain insights from their data more efficiently.

San Jose, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2013Year Founded
$642MTotal Funding
SECONDARYCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Health & Wellness - Managing emotional and physical health are key to living happier lives. Cohesity employees enjoy access to exercise and meditation apps, e-Learning resources, Scribd, and more.
Parental Leave - Cohesity offers salary continuation in coordination with other benefits up to 20 weeks for maternity leaves. Up to four weeks of child bonding leave is offered to non-birth parents.
Personal Time - Our unlimited PTO policy ensures that you have work-life wellbeing and flexibility when you need it.
Financial - Cohesity offers a competitive salary, pay-for-performance bonus plan, retirement savings plan, flexible spending accounts, commuter checks, and more.

Risks

Emerging competition from startups like Eon challenges Cohesity's market position.
Integration challenges from Veritas acquisition could disrupt operations.
New leadership roles may lead to transitional challenges in company culture.

Differentiation

Cohesity integrates AI to enhance data insights and protection, setting it apart.
Their hyper-converged secondary storage simplifies data management for enterprises.
Cohesity's recognition as AWS Global Storage Partner of the Year boosts its credibility.

Upsides

Strategic partnership with NVIDIA enhances AI-driven data management solutions.
Acquisition of Veritas Technologies expands Cohesity's market share in data protection.
Deepening partnership with CrowdStrike strengthens cybersecurity offerings against data breaches.

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