What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect - Federal position at Harness.io?
New York, New York, United States
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Position Summary
In this role, you will be working with internal and external stakeholders to architect, design and implement DevSecOps, FinOps and Engineering Excellence solutions for enterprise customers. You will have an opportunity to work with Harness Engineering and various customer functions, such as DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Finance and Engineering Analytics teams. You will develop best practices and automations to streamline Harness platform deployments in the most efficient, scalable, repeatable and reliable manner possible. We're a high-growth company on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to revolutionize engineering deployment tools & continuous delivery.
About the role
- Engage with our customer's technical teams to analyze and understand current DevSecOps/CI/CD/Policy & Template Governance tools and processes
- Architect and implement an optimized Harness setup for integration, scale, and repeatability
- Interface with the Customer's Executive and Leadership teams to understand the technical goals and business objectives related to their CI/CD process, design their Harness implementation to best fit those requirements, and correlate the technical success criteria to the business requirements
- Provide positive anecdotes from each engagement, craft best practices around Customer implementations, convert them into automation and create reference patterns
- Document and implement processes and solutions that are employed for onboarding success for the purpose of internal enablement
- Contribute to the product design, assist in the Harness Community, and for building out of an advanced technical knowledge base
- Consult on DevSecOps/CI/CD best practices, processes, solutions, etc.
- Interact with customers on a professional, meaningful and technically deep level
- Ability to be able to implement and debug on a Self Managed Platform. Experience in implementing solutions in Federal or Government Organizations or highly regulated environments
- Work closely with Pre-sales and Post-sales teams to ensure that Harness customers are successful and experience a high level of customer satisfaction with the Harness solution.
About you
- BA/BS degree in CS or Computer Engineering-related field with 3 years of relevant experience
- 5 Experience with DevOps and including some multiple of the following solutions preferred:
- Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, Gitlab, Bamboo, TeamCity, TravisCI, Bitbucket, Jira, ServiceNow, Helm, Kustomize, PCF, OpenShift, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Linux, Python, Bash, Powershell, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, Instana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, Sumo Logic, etc.
- Experience delivering custom solutions to customers of all sizes, whether internal or external (external customer-facing experience a plus).
- You are a perpetual learner, thrive in a team setting, enjoy sharing your experience and solutions, consistently pursuing excellence and success in all your tasks, detail-oriented and analytical, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Results-driven individual with a hunger for accomplishing in fast paced environments and a knack for optimizing processes
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
- Must have security clearance to work with the customers in the Federal space and Government agencie
Work Location
Remote from within the US - up to 25% travel
What you will have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Flexible work schedule
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $164,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.
Pay transparency
$150,000—$164,000 USD
Salary : $150,000 - $164,000
