Product Solutions Architect

Overview

At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an Engineer with NetApp, you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.
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At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.

Job Summary

Join NetApp’s CVO team as a Product Solutions Architect. Own strategic cloud workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud—turn customer insight into product capabilities, lead previews to GA, and scale adoption with hands-on solutioning, tooling, and enablement.

The Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) team helps customers run business-critical workloads on the cloud with the resilience and efficiency of ONTAP. We drive growth for NetApp cloud storage by converting customer needs into product capabilities, validating solutions with early customers, and enabling the field to scale adoption. We’re looking for a Product Solutions Architect to accelerate CVO adoption across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. You’ll own strategic workload solutions end-to-end—shaping direction with product and engineering, incubating features through preview to GA, building tooling that removes friction, and enabling our field, partners, and customers to succeed. in this tole you will:

Own workload solutions: Integrate CVO into hyperscaler-native architectures; lead the full lifecycle for strategic initiatives from discovery and validation through build, launch, and post-GA evaluation.
Turn signals into roadmap: Translate customer and partner feedback (RFEs/FPVRs) into crisp PRFAQs and actionable backlog items; partner with engineering to scope, prioritize, and guide sprint execution.
Incubate features & drive early growth: Run private/public previews, engage design partners, and prove value for capabilities like block datastores, freemium/agentless onboarding, marketplace flows, and AI/analytics integrations.
Design for adoption at scale: Build and maintain tooling (licensing/trial automation, POC accelerators, performance sizers/TCO models) to reduce time-to-value and standardize best practices.
Field & customer enablement: Author technical docs and solution guides; deliver deep-dive sessions and “train-the-trainer” programs for NetApp and hyperscaler field teams; present at global industry events.
Customer & partner advocacy: Host advisory boards and office hours; act as a technical liaison for strategic escalations; partner closely within the hyperscaler ecosystem to align roadmaps and co-develop solutions.
Data-driven outcomes: Define, track, and communicate KPIs (usage/adoption, cost/performance, revenue impact) and iterate based on learnings to improve product-market fit and business results.
Cross-functional collaboration: Work across product management, engineering, UX, support, marketing, sales, CSMs, professional services, and partner integrators; contribute to internal knowledge initiatives.
Job Requirements
At least 5 years of experience in building/operating solutions on at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
Strong full-stack awareness from data storage through applications and business processes: OS, networking, virtualization, security/governance, cost management/FinOps, analytics/AI/ML, and automation/IaC.
Proven experience as a Cloud/Solutions Architect, Solution Engineer, Product Manager, or product-adjacent architecture role with a track record of solving complex storage problems and influencing product outcomes.
Protocols & data management expertise (NFS/SMB/CIFS/iSCSI, RAID, snapshots, replication) and performance tuning for cloud workloads.
Exceptional written and verbal communication; ability to articulate deep technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Customer obsession, bias for action, and ownership mentality with demonstrated end-to-end delivery across globally dispersed teams.
Familiarity with enterprise automation frameworks and/or a programming language (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation) is a plus.
Hands-on experience with NetApp ONTAP (configuration, operations, troubleshooting, optimization) is a plus.

Nice to Have

Experience with VMware Solution (AVS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), and cloud marketplace deployment models.
Hands-on integration with Azure OneLake, Google Gemini, and cloud AI/analytics services backed by object/S3 on ONTAP.
Background in creating field-facing tools (estimators, sizers, onboarding/licensing automation) and standardized reference architectures.
Experience designing for stringent security and sovereignty requirements (contractual, legal, geopolitical, industry frameworks).
Exposure to regulated/sovereign environments (e.g., Azure GovCloud, Google Assured Workloads) and compliance programs.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.

Why NetApp?

We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.

We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.

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Our values

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Benefits
Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.