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Cohesity · 1 week ago

Senior Field Technical Director

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security, trusted by over 13,600 enterprise customers. The Senior Field Technical Director will define the technical vision for complex enterprises, ensuring that customer requirements are understood and solutions are effectively implemented.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCyber SecurityData CenterData StorageInformation Technology
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Responsibilities

Explored & Understood: Deeply assess business and technical needs, capturing all requirements across workloads, infrastructure, and operations
Architected & Designed: Translate customer goals into scalable, resilient architectures that leverage Cohesity’s capabilities to their fullest potential
Delivered & Adopted: Ensure solutions are successfully implemented, drive adoption, and position the account for long-term success and expansion
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making
Present Cohesity technology (deep dive) to customer executives, technical leaders/experts and explain how it is applied in various use-cases/scenarios
Conduct discovery workshops with the customer to identify business objectives, document use cases/requirements, and operational constraints
Develop high-level architectural alternatives, review with customers, and deliver (written) design plans to meet the customer's needs (especially “at scale”) and includes considerations of special phases of the project (e.g. migration, operational cut-over) for Cohesity implementation teams to follow
Help plan and conduct technical demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs) with the account SE
Provide technical information for RFPs/RFIs
Provide technical review for all account team proposals
Liaison with Product Management and Engineering to represent customer/field requirements and resolve specific issues
Act as technical point of escalation for all architectural and design decisions
Act as a leader in your territory and across the FTD squad
Drive results leading product focused cross-functional teams

Qualification

Data center designData protectionCyber-securityPublic Cloud AWSPublic Cloud AzurePublic Cloud GCPStorageBackupVirtualizationLinux CLIDisaster RecoveryScripting / AutomationCommunicationProject managementCross-functional collaborationTime management

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
15+ years of experience in IT
Expertise in data center design and practices
Expertise in data protection
Expertise in cyber-security
Expertise in solutions at web scale
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support decision making
Excellent communication and project-related skills
Strong verbal communication/presentation skills
Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation
Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills
The ability to work cross-functionally and run meetings to achieve a plan
The ability to manage projects and to drive to a deadline

Preferred

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance
Database Protection and Recovery
Distributed Systems
Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Layer 2 Networking and Firewalls
Scripting / Automation
Visio or equivalent application

Company

Cohesity

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Cohesity is a data management technology firm that offers hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, files, and analytics.

H1B Sponsorship

Cohesity has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (116)
2024 (83)
2023 (57)
2022 (83)
2021 (81)
2020 (71)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$955M
Key Investors
Haveli InvestmentsThe Carlyle GroupJP Morgan Chase
2025-04-29Secondary Market
2024-12-10Series H
2024-12-10Series G

Leadership Team

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Sanjay Poonen
CEO & President
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Greg Statton
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific and Japan
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