Senior Director, Solutions Architecture/Engineering - Cologix, Inc.

About Our Company:

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Cologix is a leading North America network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company. Our platform gives customers access to 45+ digital edge and Scalelogix℠ hyperscale edge data centers in 13 markets across the United States and Canada along with a carrier-dense ecosystem of 710+ networks, 360+ cloud providers, 35+ onramps and seven Internet exchanges. We provide our nearly 2,000 customers with direct access to our local operations teams, resulting in strong partnerships enabled by exceptional operational support and unparalleled customer service. Backed by one of the largest North American infrastructure funds, Cologix's experienced leadership team, certified staff and commitment to ESG initiatives help form a culture that values our people, our environment and our clients.

About the Position:

We are looking for a Senior Director to lead the Solutions Architecture/Engineering (SASE) team. This entrepreneurial driven colleague would help support Cologix’ sales team in developing and closing sales by providing colocation/networking expertise and pre-sales technical support for prospects, customers and partners across our North American Platform. The position offers a direct growth path into Vice President, SASE.

The Sr. Director will lead a team of engineers and technicians in support of the customers to develop designs specifically tailored to the individual customer. The Sr. Director will provide both technical guidance to the SASE team as well as managerial oversight and promote growth within the team.

The candidate will be a key component in educating customers of all sizes, from retail to hyperscale, on the value proposition of Cologix and participating in deep technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.

The Sr. Director will be knowledgeable in, and support, all of Cologix’ product lines, proficient in colocation/networking environments and will effectively manage a demanding schedule among a wide variety of technical and pre-sales goals. They should have a high-level understanding of the cloud services networking environments (private/public/hybrid) to define customer requirements and translate those requirements into Cologix technical solutions.

The role of the Sr. Director will be to act as a technical advisor/consultant for Cologix’ customers, and the Cologix’ sales team, architecting creative and complex co-location and IT/cloud/networking solutions for our customers. The role requires a broad range of knowledge and understanding of critical facilities (electrical, mechanical, and low voltage systems) and high performing infrastructure as well as an understanding of lower levels of the OSI model.

The Sr. Director should be able to articulate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences. They will also provide technical leadersh