Principal Solution Engineer

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. 

 

Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.  We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

Principal Solution Engineer

Role Overview: 

The Equinix Digital Services Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy team is seeking an accomplished, forward-thinking Principal Solution Engineer to enable, support and grow our strategic technology and route to market partners. In this role, you will create and build, from scratch, demos, POCs, validated solution blueprints, live environments to drive adoption of the Equinix digital services portfolio with and through partners. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our solutions strategy, propelling product innovation, and delivering unmatched value to our valued customers. 

The ideal candidate has a DevOps mindset, is curious, loves learning new tech and is comfortable digging in, hands-on, including coding, with everything from APIs, hypervisors, networking, operating systems. 

This is an individual contributor role reporting to the VP of Partnerships and Ecosystem Strategy Digital Services. 

Responsibilities: 

• Create solution blueprints and reference architectures to enable partners to build joint solutions on top of our products. 

• Develop technical enablement content including videos, webinars, podcasts, presentations, blogs, and hands-on labs to help guide and explain solutions to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders. 

• Develop, code and evangelize compelling proofs of concept and demos (including apps and scripts) that showcase our joint solutions. 

• Build certification training programs and help partners achieve technical competency in selling and supporting our solutions. 

• Collaborate with core product management and engineering teams to build APIs, tools, and resources to technically enable our partner ecosystem. 

• Track and report on partner certification attainment, solution development progress, and key technical blockers.<