Senior Solutions Engineer

As a Sr Solutions Engineer at Sumo Logic, you will design and implement complex enterprise infrastructure solutions, focusing on scalability, resilience, security, and cost-efficiency. You will lead IT in developing new infrastructure automation projects, solving hybrid infrastructure problems across networking, applications, and cloud. This role involves improving existing systems, driving re-architecture initiatives, and building end-to-end provisioning solutions for a growing enterprise, collaborating with other teams to deliver high-impact engagements.

Must Have

• Design and implement complex enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Improve existing IT-managed systems through architectural reviews.
• Deep experience in DevOps methodologies for infrastructure, cloud, identity, and network solutions.
• Improve systems for compliance adherence, security guardrails, and cost-optimization.
• Lead re-architecting IT systems for streamlined, scalable, and resilient implementations.
• Drive well-architected, end-to-end provisioning solutions for enterprise.
• Build strong partnerships with other Sumo Logic teams.
• 6+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery.
• Experience developing scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure architectures.
• Experience in observability and cost-optimization in application, server, and cloud (AWS preferred) settings.
• Experience working with Fortinet network devices on a system administration and configuration level.
• Experience with DNS optimization and consolidation (CloudFlare, AWS Transit Gateway, and Route53 preferred).
• Experience with VPN management (FortiClient, ZScaler, and Pritunl preferred).
• Experience with Identity Providers (Okta preferred).
• Experience with Certificate Management (Digicert and AWS ACM preferred) and authentication.
• Hands-on infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Scalr and GitHub Actions preferred).
• Experience with writing automations and system integrations (Python preferred).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience implementing robust and well-architected designs for enterprise scale systems.
• Experience and comfort with an on-call schedule for enterprise systems during daylight hours regional time.

Good to Have

• Regional IT site leadership experience.
• Experience in specific technologies: ADP, Azure, GCP.
• Passion for continuous learning and deep technological curiosity.
• Agile development experience and familiarity with Jira, sprints, and pointing.

The proliferation of machine log data has the potential to give organizations unprecedented real-time visibility into their infrastructure and operations. With this opportunity comes tremendous technical challenges around ingesting, managing, and understanding high-volume streams of heterogeneous data.

As a Sr Solutions Engineer, you will actively contribute to, architect for, and lead IT in the design and development of new infrastructure automation projects. You will be instrumental in helping us solve, by architecture and implementation, complex hybrid infrastructure problems among IT’s robust inventory of networking systems, applications, and cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with a team of highly skilled individuals to deliver on high impact engagements, reporting directly to the Global Head of IT and engaging on projects under the guidance of the Lead Solution Architect.

You are a strong senior solutions engineer who is passionate about scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions. You care about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested code; you do this as a member of a team, helping the group come up with a better solution than you would as an individual. You are well-versed in on-premise and cloud networking to the level that you are comfortable acting as a subject matter expert in those topics. Ideally, you have experience with performance, scalability, and reliability issues of 24x7 uptime systems and solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing complex and well-architected enterprise infrastructure solutions
• Work to improve existing IT-managed systems, solutions, and process through architectural reviews and design enhancement initiatives
• Deep experience in devops methodologies and practices as applied to infrastructure, cloud, identity, integration and network solutions
• Improve systems to provide strict compliance adherence, security guardrails, and cost-optimization
• Lead a drive forward the the re-architecting of IT systems, solutions, and processes for more streamlined, scalable, and resilient implementations
• Engage and push forward well-architected, end-to-end provisioning solutions for a growing enterprise organization across multiple environments and types of infrastructure
• Build strong partnerships and engage with other teams at Sumo Logic to create solutions that enable and benefit all parties and increased derived value

Requirements:

• 6+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
• Experience developing scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure architectures and implementations
• Experience in observability and cost-optimization in application, server, and cloud (AWS preferred) settings
• Experience working with Fortinet network devices on a system administration and configuration level
• Experience with DNS optimization and consolidation (CloudFlare, AWS Transit Gateway, and Route53 preferred) as well as VPN management (FortiClient, ZScaler, and Pritunl preferred)
• Experience with Identity Providers (Okta preferred)
• Experience with Certificate Management (Digicert and AWS ACM preferred) and authentication
• Hands-on infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred) as well as CI/CD pipelines (Scalr and GitHub Actions preferred)
• Experience with writing automations and system integrations (Python preferred)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience implementing robust and well-architected designs for enterprise scale systems
• Experience and comfort with an on-call schedule for enterprise systems during daylight hours regional time

Desirable:

• Regional IT site leadership experience is a major positive
• Experience in the following specific technologies is a plus:
• ADP
• Azure
• GCP
• You should have a passion for continuous learning and deep technological curiosity
• Agile development experience and a familiarity with Jira, sprints, and pointing

About Us

Sumo Logic, Inc. helps make the digital world secure, fast, and reliable by unifying critical security and operational data through its Intelligent Operations Platform. Built to address the increasing complexity of modern cybersecurity and cloud operations challenges, we empower digital teams to move from reaction to readiness—combining agentic AI-powered SIEM and log analytics into a single platform to detect, investigate, and resolve modern challenges. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic for trusted insights to protect against security threats, ensure reliability, and gain powerful insights into their digital environments. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.

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