Rubrik: Global Solutions Architect - Cloud — London, United Kingdom

About Rubrik

Rubrik provides data-security and resilience technology for organisations facing cyberattacks, malicious activity and operational disruption. Its recruitment material discusses protecting enterprise information, including data held in business software and cloud environments. The described portfolio includes security and protection for SaaS applications, with attention to access, backup and recovery. Its business connects the technical handling of information with an organisation's ability to keep critical data protected and to recover when normal operations are disrupted.

The position and its setting

Rubrik lists Global Solutions Architect - Cloud in London, United Kingdom, under reference 8154541. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Support
• Employer listing date: 1 September 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Rubrik Professional Services is hiring a Global Solutions Architect to serve as our most senior technical authority for public cloud
• This is a global, individual-contributor role at Technical Director level
• Set the architectural direction for how Rubrik is designed, deployed, and operated in the world’s most demanding cloud environments, and you will carry that direction personally into our most strategic customer engagements
• Be deployed where technical risk is highest: flagship accounts, first-of-a-kind architectures, and the engagements whose outcome sets the pattern everyone else follows
• Between those engagements, you will convert what you learned into the reference architectures, service offerings, and enablement that raise the capability of every architect and consultant in the field
• Your impact is measured by the quality of the practice you leave behind, not the hours you personally bill
• Depth in public cloud architecture first
• Deep Rubrik product expertise is expected to be built on the job
• If you have architected large-scale data, storage, or security platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and you can learn a new platform quickly and completely, we want to talk
• Own the global cloud architecture standard for Rubrik Professional Services, reference architectures, design patterns, guardrails, and documented anti-patterns
• Act as the final technical escalation point for cloud architecture decisions on strategic engagements worldwide
• Define the technical shape of our cloud service offerings: what we sell, how it is scoped, and what good delivery looks like
• Establishment: Rubrik PS’s position on emerging cloud capabilities and translate them into deployment guidance before customers ask
• Leadership: the hardest engagements
• Own architecture and design on the most complex, highest-visibility customer engagements globally, multi-region, multi-cloud, and multi-regulator estates
• Serve as trusted advisor to customer CIO, CTO, Chief Architect, and CISO stakeholders, and defend design decisions in front of customer architecture review boards

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 15+ years overall experience, including 8+ years as a handson cloud architect at enterprise scale
• Demonstrated ownership of architecture for multi-region, multi-account or multi-subscription cloud estates, in a large enterprise or a consulting / professional services organization
• Expert-level AWS and Azure
• Genuine depth across compute, storage, networking, identity, and encryption / key management
• Deep understanding of enterprise data protection and cyber resilience RTO and RPO modelling, immutability, backup and recovery design, isolated and air-gapped recovery
• Working fluency in cloud security and compliance frameworks and how they constrain design in regulated industries
• Automation background infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep), scripting (Python, PowerShell), API-first integration, and CI/CD (Automation Background)
• A track record of influence without authority across a global, matrixed organization and multiple time zones
• Executive-grade communication credible with a customer’s CIO and their principal engineer on the same day
• Evidence of building reusable technical IP, not only delivering successful projects
• The ability to learn a complex new platform to expert depth, quickly
• Prior Rubrik experience is not required

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• GCP strongly preferred
• Kubernetes and containerized workload architecture; cloud-native and managed database platforms
• SaaS data protection experience (Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and similar)
• Prior Principal, Distinguished, or Technical Director title within a vendor professional services organization or a major systems integrator
• Professional or expert-level certifications (AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent)
• An established public technical presence — talks, writing, open source, or community leadership

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Advertised location: London, United Kingdom

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Rubrik

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• APIs
• Salesforce
• ISO
• Google Cloud
• Terraform