Accelerator Architect

About CyberArk:
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), is the global leader in Identity Security. Centered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle. The world’s leading organizations trust CyberArk to help secure their most critical assets. To learn more about CyberArk, visit our CyberArk blogs or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.

As an Accelerator Architect at Venafi, you’ll be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced team that protects many of the largest organizations in the world. 

Venafi is seeking a highly motivated, proactive, and customer-focused Accelerator Architect that can translate and deliver upon our customers’ business and technical Machine Identity Management needs. In this role you will demonstrate expertise with the Venafi Trust Protection Platform by preparing and delivering specialized solution workshops, evaluating existing business processes, proposing process improvements, and tracking the success of a customer’s Machine Identity Management program. 

An Accelerator Architect is responsible for ensuring the success of multiple customer accounts. You will serve as both a customer advocate within Venafi as well as a Venafi subject matter expert within the customer organization. Collaboratively maintaining close working relationships with all groups across the Venafi team, partner organizations, and customer organizations is crucial.  

Machine Identity is a critical component of a secure enterprise and permeates every technology in the enterprise. As a result, a successful Accelerator Architect has wide-ranging experience with a variety of IT related technologies. As every organization shifts towards automated processes, cloud-technologies and DevOps methodologies, experience in these spaces become increasingly important. The ideal Accelerator Architect can demonstrate to developer and cloud teams how Machine Identity Management increases security posture, streamlines processes and is able to document patterns and blueprints to provide compelling solutions in this space. 

This role offers an opportunity to guide and advise in the emerging space of Machine Identity Management while leveraging existing technical knowledge across a wide variety of industry technologies. This is a remote position that will require approximately 20% travel to the customer sites and Venafi headquarters. 

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• 7+ years of consulting experience working within enterprise IT environments  
• A strong desire to drive success through technical mentorship and establishing effective working relationships with customers. 
• Proven business acumen and ability to identify critical business problems to be solved and to articulate the solution to customers. 
• Experience automating Machine Identity Management using the Venafi Trust Protection Platforms (Datacenter, TLSPC & TLSPK) and integrating with critical customer technologies. 
• Strong expertise with scripting and APIs for automation using PowerShell or other scripting languages (Go, Python, JavaScript, etc.) 
• Experience with modern containerization and associated technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. 
• Direct working experience with cloud technologies (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud). 
• Proficiency with orchestration and CI/CD technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, etc. 
• Experience with technologies that heavily use TLS/SSL encryption (e.g. F5, NetScaler, IIS, Apache, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc.) desirable. 
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communications skills. 
• Proven experience successfully working with sales, client IT, and client end-user groups in critical customer situations. 

What sets you apart? 

• Technical understanding of the major cloud providers use of machine identities, native capabilities, multi-cloud environment architecture and hybrid environments. 
• Previous experience in a consultative, sales engineer, or enterprise architect role. 
• Software development training and experience. 
• VSA certification. 
• Industry recognized security certifications (CISSP) 

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. 
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time. 
The salary range for this position is $99,000 – $145,000/year, plus commissions or discretionary bonus, which will be based on the employee’s performance. Base pay may also vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits.