Istari
Empowering our physical world with a digital one
Federal Pre-Sales Solution Architect
Location
United States
Posted
89 days ago
Salary
$140K - $170K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes
Job Description
• Lead technical discovery sessions to understand mission requirements, engineering workflows, data flows, and infrastructure constraints.
• Evaluate cross-program collaboration needs, security boundaries, classification requirements, and deployment feasibility.
• Design deployment architectures using Istari’s control plane, data plane, and agent frameworks.
• Architect solutions for a variety of customer environments (e.g. AWS GovCloud, Azure, on-prem HPC environments, containerized platforms (EKS, ECS, K8s), and multi-tenant deployments).
• Own end-to-end demo preparation and delivery for federal prospects.
• Tailor demos to mission-specific scenarios, data flows, engineering tools, and classification requirements.
• Collaborate with AEs to craft compelling technical narratives that articulate the “why,” not just the “how,” of Istari.
• Advise customers on cloud security posture, Zero Trust patterns, enclave design, and network segmentation.
• Support ATO-related discussions, boundary definitions, and infrastructure alignment.
• Partner with AEs to quantify value, support ROI models, and articulate the technical pathway to successful production deployments.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 5–10+ years in pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, systems engineering, or technical consulting for complex enterprise or infrastructure software.
- Experience supporting federal missions—DoD, intelligence community, national labs, or defense primes.
- Hands-on experience with AWS GovCloud and secure cloud/on-prem hybrid architectures.
- Prior ownership of technical demos, ideally for infrastructure, data, or engineering platforms.
- Strong technical storytelling and demo delivery skills—able to translate complex concepts into intuitive, mission-relevant narratives.
- Ability to architect secure, distributed systems across classification levels and network boundaries.
- Proficiency with containerized deployments, networking, cloud security, and systems integration.
- Skilled at diagramming, documenting, and communicating architectures with clarity.
- Excellent collaboration skills across sales, engineering, and product.
- Must be a US citizen living within the United States.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Employee Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Life Insurance
- Flexible Work Hours
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) with federal government holidays
- Competitive Compensation
- 401k
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Setup Budget
- Reimbursement for approved trainings and subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
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