Own the architecture and hands-on delivery of production AI systems, embedding with enterprise clients to understand their operations, ship solutions, and shape AI adoption from strategy through deployment.
Consulting Architect
📜 Description
- Lead customer discussions about emerging open-source technologies and help shape solution direction.
- Translate technical developments into actionable strategies for technical and business audiences.
- Design, implement, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native and AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes and public clouds.
- Help customers scale infrastructure, modernize application architectures, and adopt AI and cloud solutions.
- Deliver workshops, training, and enablement to accelerate customer adoption.
- Engage with open-source communities and advocate for customer needs in upstream development.
🛠️ Requirements
- Proven experience in open source ecosystems (e.g., OpenStack, CNCF, LF AI & Data, OpenInfra).
- Expertise in Kubernetes and AI/ML platforms (e.g., Kubeflow, Ray, MLflow).
- Passion for emerging technologies, next-generation cloud strategies, and AI infrastructure.
- Strong ability to define direction, take ownership, and drive innovation in a rapidly evolving landscape.
- Hands-on experience with cloud automation, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
- Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence both engineers and executives.
- Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or professional services with a consultative approach.
- Active contributions to open source projects, working groups, or governance bodies.
- Experience speaking at OpenStack Summit, KubeCon, AI Summit, or similar industry events.
- Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies using open source technologies.
Full job description
Company Description
About Mirantis
Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.
Job Description
We are seeking a Consulting Architect with deep expertise in platform engineering, Kubernetes, and AI solutions to help customers design, implement, and optimize open source solutions to support their business objectives. This role is not just about execution—you will have a high degree of autonomy to define direction, shape strategy, and influence the future of cutting-edge technologies.
As part of our next-generation innovation and strategy team, you will work on new and innovative products, helping customers adopt open source solutions for cloud infrastructure, AI, and cloud-native computing. You will engage in both pre-sales and post-sales consulting, guiding customers through complex technology decisions, presenting a compelling vision, and driving successful outcomes.
We’re looking for someone who thrives in uncertainty, takes risks, and challenges conventional thinking, all while working closely with customers to implement scalable, forward-thinking solutions.
What You’ll Do
Strategic Customer Engagement & Pre-Sales:
Lead visionary discussions with customers, helping them navigate new and evolving open source technologies.
Define and shape the direction of Mirantis’ solutions, working closely with colleagues and leaders across the company to align with our strategy.
Build relationships with both technical and business audiences, translating emerging technologies into actionable strategies.
Solution Delivery & Innovation:
Design, Implement, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud-native and AI/ML workloads in Kubernetes and public cloud environments.
Help customers scale infrastructure, modernize application architectures, and adopt next-generation AI and cloud solutions.
Deliver workshops, training, and enablement programs to accelerate customer adoption of new and emerging technologies.
Engage with open source communities, contribute to projects, and advocate for customer needs in upstream development.
Qualifications
Proven experience in open source ecosystems (e.g., OpenStack, CNCF, LF AI & Data, OpenInfra).
Expertise in Kubernetes and AI/ML platforms (e.g., Kubeflow, Ray, MLflow).
Passion for emerging technologies, next-generation cloud strategies, and AI infrastructure.
Strong ability to define direction, take ownership, and drive innovation in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Hands-on experience with cloud automation, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence both engineers and executives.
Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or professional services with a consultative approach.
Preferred Qualifications
Active contributions to open source projects, working groups, or governance bodies.
Experience speaking at OpenStack Summit, KubeCon, AI Summit, or similar industry events.
Familiarity with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies using open source technologies.
Additional Information
Why you’ll love Mirantis
- Work with an established leader in the cloud infrastructure industry.
- Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.
- Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.
- Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued.
- Receive a competitive compensation package with strong benefits plan.
- We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!
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We are a Leader for Container Management in G2 (#2 after AWS)!
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