Staff Solutions Architect - N.a. [remote]

Upbound

Montréal, Canada
On-site
Hands-on kubernetes expertise
Platform engineering or sre background
Cloud-native tooling (cncf, iac, gitops, ci/cd)
Own the technical success of customers, driving initial implementation through production adoption to ensure they achieve real business value with Crossplane and the Upbound platform

Job Summary

  • Own the technical success of customers, driving initial implementation through production adoption to ensure they achieve real business value with Crossplane and the Upbound platform.
  • Design and deliver Crossplane-based control plane architectures tailored to customer infrastructure and organizational context, building reference platforms and implementation accelerators.
  • Represent customer technical needs internally to influence product roadmap and prioritization, and partner with pre-sales SEs for smooth handoffs.

Matching Summary

Own the technical success of customers, driving initial implementation through production adoption to ensure they achieve real business value with Crossplane and the Upbound platform.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Hands-on Kubernetes expertise
  • Platform engineering or SRE background
  • Cloud-native tooling (CNCF, IaC, GitOps, CI/CD)
  • Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Strong programming skills (Go preferred)
  • Customer technical implementation leadership

Nice-to-have

  • Crossplane power user
  • Active Kubernetes community involvement
  • Startup experience
  • Coding agents experience
  • Distributed team experience

Key Requirements

  • Hands-on Kubernetes expertise
  • Platform engineering or SRE background
  • Cloud-native tooling experience
  • Experience across at least two major cloud providers
  • Strong programming skills (Go preferred)
  • Proven track record of leading customer implementations
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple customer engagements

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