Pre-Sales Solution Architect

If you believe data is the root of all problems in automation, you already speak our language. The question is: can you work as a trusted advisor to network automation teams?

Most infrastructure teams are still duct‑taping their way through automation. The problem isn't a lack of tools. It's the absence of a proper data foundation, a real source of truth, that makes everything else fall apart. Network teams know they have a problem. They can feel it. They just can't articulate it yet.

That's where you come in.

Ops Mill is building the data foundation for infrastructure automation. Our platform, Infrahub, unifies infrastructure intent data using modern graph technology. We're a commercial open‑source company founded by practitioners, backed by engineers who've lived the problem. Smart people are already here. More are joining. We're looking for the person who closes the technical gap in the deal cycle: someone who can walk into a room of sceptical network engineers, diagnose their situation with surgical precision, and be a trusted technical advisor to help them towards their goals.

This isn't a Solutions Engineer role where you demo software and hand off. And it isn't a consultant role where you disappear after the engagement. This is a trusted advisor relationship, from first conversation to long‑term production success and beyond.

You’ll be the person customers call when they’re stuck, when the architecture decision matters, when they need someone who understands their environment as well as they do. You won’t just be closing deals, you’ll be choosing partners. The organisations Ops Mill works with need to be the right fit for us as much as we are for them, and you’ll have the judgment to know the difference.

You’ll qualify with the same rigour you bring to solution design, because a bad‑fit customer isn’t a win.

The customers who are the right fit will remember you. Not because you sold them something, but because you helped them solve something. That distinction matters here.

You’ll also shape how we grow. Your intelligence from the field feeds directly into product, positioning, and how we think about the market.

• Lead the technical win across the full pre‑sales cycle: discovery, qualification, solution design, PoC delivery, and technical close, partnered with the field team but driving the technical narrative
• Run killer discovery calls that uncover the real problem beneath the stated problem, identifying where a customer’s automation stack is fundamentally broken at the data layer
• Design and build custom PoCs that demonstrate Infrahub solving real infrastructure challenges, not canned demos, but tailored proof that this works for them
• Own the technical relationship with key customer stakeholders from hands‑on engineers to Directors of Infrastructure, adapting your message without losing credibility at either end
• Qualify hard and fast: recognise when a prospect isn’t a fit, disqualify cleanly, and keep the pipeline healthy rather than full of noise
• Partner with technology alliances: network vendors, systems integrators, automation tooling companies, to build joint solutions and expand our reach through the ecosystem
• Bridge field and product: bring structured customer insight back to engineering and product teams, turning customer pain into roadmap priorities
• Build the technical community through demo content, blog posts, reference architectures, and conference appearances that make Ops Mill the authoritative voice in infrastructure automation

• 7+ years in a pre‑sales, solutions engineering, or field engineering role – quota‑contributing or quota‑carrying, where your technical output directly influenced commercial outcomes
• Genuine infrastructure automation depth: you’ve built and run production automation for networks, cloud, or data centre environments using tools like Ansible, Nornir, Terraform, or similar
• Strong Python skills: you can write clean automation code, review customer implementations, and build PoC integrations that hold up under scrutiny
• Proven discovery and qualification instincts: you know how to ask the questions that surface the real…