<div class="content-intro"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>CIQ OVERVIEW</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. From the operating system layer through AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud-native orchestration, CIQ delivers the speed, security, scalability, and sovereignty that major enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions depend on.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the developer of the RLC Pro family of Enterprise Linux distributions, Fuzzball workload orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Ascender Pro automation. Our customers include some of the largest and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world, working across HPC, AI/ML, defense, and regulated industries.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are a company of builders, operators, and open source practitioners. If you want to do work that matters, at a company that is genuinely changing how enterprise infrastructure gets built and run, we want to talk.</span></p></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Must be located in Japan.</strong></span></em></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>POSITION SUMMARY</strong></span></h3> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CIQ is looking for a skilled and customer-focused Sr. Solutions Architect to support CIQ’s go-to-market efforts in Japan. As the technical counterpart to the Sr, Account Executive, you will play a critical role in engaging prospects, enabling partners, and ensuring technical success across pre-sales and post-sales engagements. You will be responsible for designing solutions using CIQ’s product portfolio - including RLC, Fuzzball, Warewulf, and Apptainer - and guiding customers through their evaluation, adoption, and scaling journeys.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Key Responsibilities</span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with the Senior Account Executive to understand customer needs, design appropriate solutions, and support sales opportunities.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deliver product demonstrations, technical presentations, and hands-on workshops to showcase CIQ solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead technical discovery sessions, solution architecture design, and proof-of-concept deployments.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide guidance on infrastructure integration, deployment best practices, and performance tuning.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Support partner enablement by delivering technical training and architecture guidance to local system integrators and resellers.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Serve as a bridge between customers and CIQ engineering, advocating for product enhancements and roadmap alignment.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>NEEDED TO SUCCEED</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Successful candidates will be: </span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A senior-level technical expert with strong customer-facing experience and deep familiarity with Linux-based infrastructure.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Passionate about open source and confident in supporting performance-intensive environments (HPC, AI/ML, hybrid cloud).</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Equally comfortable at the whiteboard, command line, and customer site (virtually or in person).</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sa