Principal Solution Engineer, Equinix
$131-272k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$131-272k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a DevOps mindset, is curious, loves learning new tech and is comfortable digging in, hands-on, including coding, with everything from APIs, hypervisors, networking, operating systems
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering or technical discipline; MBA or advanced degree is a plus
- 10+ years of experience in solution engineering; creating solution blueprints and reference architectures to enable partners to build joint solutions
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise-level, cloud infrastructure services, and Edge Infrastructure, especially compute and storage environments (VMware, Nutanix, Pure, Netapp, etc.) and solutions
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise-level, Network as a Service (NaaS), Multi-cloud networking (L4-L7), and Network Security solutions
- Current or recent hands-on experience with programming, scripting and IaC tools (Python, Shell Scripting, and Terraform etc.)
- Current or recent experience developing POCs, demos, websites and apps, and technical enablement content, including videos, webinars, podcasts, presentations, demos, blogs, and hands-on labs to educate partner sales teams on our solutions
- Create and maintain the official live demo environments and video library of Equinix and partner solutions portfolio
- An excellent understanding of developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, API integrations, and IDE/GitHub/GitLab integrations
- Understanding of developer-centric cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)
What the job involves
- The Equinix Digital Services Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy team is seeking an accomplished, forward-thinking Principal Solution Engineer to enable, support and grow our strategic technology and route to market partners
- In this role, you will create and build, from scratch, demos, POCs, validated solution blueprints, live environments to drive adoption of the Equinix digital services portfolio with and through partners
- You will play a pivotal role in shaping our solutions strategy, propelling product innovation, and delivering unmatched value to our valued customers
- This is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP of Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy Digital Services
- Create solution blueprints and reference architectures to enable partners to build joint solutions on top of our products
- Develop technical enablement content including videos, webinars, podcasts, presentations, blogs, and hands-on labs to help guide and explain solutions to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
- Develop, code and evangelize compelling proofs of concept and demos (including apps and scripts) that showcase our joint solutions
- Build certification training programs and help partners achieve technical competency in selling and supporting our solutions
- Collaborate with core product management and engineering teams to build APIs, tools, and resources to technically enable our partner ecosystem
- Track and report on partner certification attainment, solution development progress, and key technical blockers
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Dec 1999
$280m
LATE VC
Total funding: $280m
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company values
- Seek something bigger - Come drive meaningful change as part of the world’s trusted, leading digital infrastructure company. Together, our work enables innovation that enriches our work, life and planet
- Challenge assumptions - Bring your unique perspectives and contributions to help us make bold decisions, become aware of biases and remove any barriers that still exist
- Want to unlock your potential - Achieve, learn, adapt and be comfortable building a fulfilling career. We are here to help you unlock your potential
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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