Copy of Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering

  WHO WE ARE:   Aviatrix® is pioneering the Cloud Native Security Fabric — the architecture the Containment Era requires. The Cloud Native Security Fabric governs every workload communication path across every cloud, every VPC, every Kubernetes cluster, and every serverless function, from a single policy plane. One rule. Universal propagation. Enforced at the workload, not at a chokepoint. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. For more information, visit aviatrix.ai.  About the role:  The Cloud Network Architect is a strategic, customer-facing technical role responsible for ensuring the success of enterprise customers operating Aviatrix in production environments. As the primary technical point of contact, the Cloud Network Architect Trusted Advisor partners closely with customers to understand their architecture, guide best practices, and drive long-term platform adoption and health. This is not a sales role and focuses on customer outcomes and operational excellence. Position Responsibilities: Customer Engagement & Technical Ownership Serve as the dedicated Trusted Advisor for assigned strategic enterprise customers, acting as an extension of their cloud networking team. Own the end-to-end technical relationship including architecture design, deployment oversight, change management, and operational reviews. Lead regular business and technical reviews (QBRs/TBRs) with customer stakeholders, from network engineers to C-level executives. Proactively identify risks, gaps, and optimization opportunities within the customer's Aviatrix deployment. Drive customer adoption of Aviatrix platform capabilities, ensuring customers realize full value from their investment. Cloud Network Architecture & Design Design and validate multi-cloud network architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) leveraging the Aviatrix platform. Guide customers through transit network design, hub-and-spoke topologies, segmentation, and inter-cloud connectivity. Collaborate with customer teams on BGP, SD-WAN, MPLS, and hybrid connectivity designs. Document reference architectures and operational runbooks tailored to each customer's environment. Advise on cloud cost optimization strategies related to network topology and traffic flows. Network Security & Aviatrix DCF Design and implement cloud network security architectures using Aviatrix Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF). Define and enforce microsegmentation policies, security domains, and network-level access controls across multi-cloud environments. Architect and deploy DCF smart groups, security policies, and distributed stateful inspection to protect east-west and north-south traffic. Integrate Aviatrix DCF with third-party NGFW and security solutions (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point) for unified security posture. Guide customers on Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) principles and implementation using Aviatrix security capabilities. Drive adoption of Aviatrix ThreatIQ, network t...