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The Opportunity

The Nutanix Database Solutions Engineering team is looking for a seasoned Database Solution 
Architect to join our team focused on bringing Hybrid and multi-cloud Database-as-a-Service to 
the enterprise level. The Database Solutions Architect combines deep technical subject matter 
expertise with a keen understanding of how to address the critical business needs of enterprise
customers through Nutanix products and solutions. This role is a high-impact and high-visibility 
one. As customers continue their hybrid cloud journey, architect-level guidance is critical to 
their success.
The architect must be a highly organized, thorough, and motivated professional who 
understands the importance of being a strong team player and leader when forging a solution 
and liaising with customers. A deep technical expertise in traditional and next-generation 
database technologies—including containerized and cloud-native database workloads is a 
must.
This role is critical to designing scalable, secure, and resilient data architectures that align with 
our cloud transformation goals and modern application environments. The ideal candidate will 
lead innovation while ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and performance across diverse 
deployment models

About the Team

Nutanix Database Engineering Solutions team is responsible for development/test of Best 
Practices and Reference Architecture guides regarding Databases on Nutanix, as well as helping
out with pre and post-sales support.
We work in a collaborative environment where everyone is encouraged to try new things and 
come up with new solutions.
Within the DB Engineering Solutions team, you'll find no shortage of challenging problems to 
work on.
 

Your Role

Design and implement robust, high-performing, and future-ready database 
architectures that support operational, transactional, and analytical workloads.Research and assess next-gen database platforms (e.g., vector databases, graph 
databases, time-series DBs, real-time analytics engines) and recommend adoption 
paths.Develop data strategies that span on-prem, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hybrid 
environments, including serverless and distributed database models.Ensure database solutions comply with data governance, privacy, and security 
regulationsChampion innovation by researching new technologies, database engine updates 
and any other relevant ecosystem update.Develop and maintain enterprise-grade database DR strategies, including 
backup/recovery plans, replication, failover mechanisms, and cross-region 
availability.Partner with internal teams, prospects, and customers to expertly design and deploy
database workloads on the Nutanix platform, fostering collaboration, technical 
excellence, and customer success at every stage.Collaborate with Nutanix’s Engineering by developing and running benchmarks, 
providing SWOT analysis of the Nutanix Platform in order enhance the Nutanix’s 
offerings.Develop robust automation solutions for database provisioning, health monitoring, 
and lifecycle management to drive operational efficiency, consistency, and 
scalability.Partner with Nutanix sales teams to support large-scale and strategic opportunities, 
providing technical expertise and solution alignment to drive customer value and 
deal success.Provide help to install, support, and maintain Nutanix solutions during strategic 
Proof of Concept (POC) deployments.Be part of a global team of SME’s providing help during customer escalations 
processes.Achieve at least Nutanix Certified Professional - Multicloud Infrastructure 
(NCP-MCI) certification within the first year to enhance expertise in customer 
experience management and establish credibility.

What You Will Bring

8+ years’ experience in a customer-facing technical role - minimum of 5 years in 
database architecture, with hands-on experience in both relational and non-
relational database systems, such as Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB,
etc.5+ years of Relational Database implementation, operations and/or solution 
deployment experience in a business-critical, high-availability context.Deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: Server Virtualization; 
Networking, Storage, Platform and Database Performance tuning.Experience with deployments of databases on Kubernetes as a big plusHands on experience with Benchmarking tools like HammerDB, Benchmark Factory, 
PgBench, SLOB, cnp-bench or others.Experience in writing automation scripts (python, PowerShell) and experience with 
infrastructure automation frameworks such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet and similar
Knowledge of public cloud database solutions/offerings like AWS RDS is a plus.Excellent oral and written communications skills, as well as excellent presentation 
skills .Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams may require more frequent in-office presence. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.

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