Senior Solutions Architect; RapidScale

At Rapid Scale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow backed by the strength of the Cox family of companies.

As a Senior Solutions Architect at Rapid Scale, you will serve as a strategic advisor, connecting complex multi-cloud technologies with the evolving business needs of our clients. Working closely with the sales organization, you will lead discovery engagements, develop business‑aligned solution strategies, and design hybrid and multi‑cloud architectures—consistently prioritizing measurable outcomes over individual technologies.

In this role, you will maintain deep expertise across Rapid Scale's hosted solutions while providing high‑level guidance on our public cloud services. You will also be responsible for effectively coordinating with our public cloud specialists, ensuring seamless engagement for advanced discovery and solution design when client requirements call for public cloud‑focused architectures.

• Lead technical discovery engagements with customers to uncover business goals, pain points, and drivers.
• Translate requirements into tailored, outcome‑focused cloud and infrastructure solutions.
• Run workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and stakeholder interviews.
• Balance breadth and depth
  , knowing when to go deep on architecture vs. when to focus on business outcomes based on the different customer personas you encounter in each customer engagement.

• Architect hybrid and multi‑cloud environments, aligning with performance, availability, security, and compliance needs.
• Represent our hosted cloud and other core offerings at a deep technical level
  , fully scoping, architecting, and presenting solutions comprised of these services.
• Represent our public cloud offerings at a high level
  , identifying customer needs that dictate a public cloud solution, and pulling in public cloud specialists as needed for deeper scoping, solutioning, and presentation of these solutions.
• Collaborate to architect multi‑cloud and hybrid cloud solutions across both hosted and public cloud service sets, ensuring the best alignment with customer outcomes.

• Act as the technical lead throughout the sales cycle, from discovery to hand‑off.
• Collaborate with sales, product, and specialist teams to align solutions with account strategy.
• Participate in RFPs, solution reviews, and scope definitions.

• Design security architectures including MDR, SOCaaS, IAM, SIEM/SOAR, and vulnerability management.
• Ensure solutions align with compliance standards (HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, ISO, NIST).

• Design secure, high‑performance networks integrating SD‑WAN, VPN, DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls across on‑prem and cloud environments.

• Stay current on emerging tech (cloud, AI/ML, automation, cybersecurity) and translate innovation into business strategy.
• Educate clients and internal teams on current and future‑state capabilities.
• Translate innovative technology solutions Rapid Scale does today and roadmap item to show clients current and future business outcomes.

• A BA/BS Degree with 6+ years of experience, or a MS Degree with 4+ years of experience, or a Ph.D with one year of experience, or 10 years of overall experience without a degree.
• Professional Level Public Cloud Certification (AWS, Azure, Google).
• Demonstrated experience working in the context of a sales team.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Hosted Cloud / Traditional IT
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  Deep knowledge of private cloud and data center architectures (VMware, Citrix, storage,…