Job Summary:
Pure Storage is a leader in the data storage and flash technology space, seeking a talented and motivated Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer. In this role, you will drive innovation by crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations and collaborate closely with the sales team to showcase the value of products and services.
Responsibilities:
โข Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customerโs business and what motivates their decision making
โข Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Everpure portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
โข Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
โข Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
โข Take control of evaluations, benchmarks and system configurations
โข Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
โข Capture requirements and translate Customerโs business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
โข Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
โข Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
โข Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
โข Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning
โข Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
โข Lead by example living the Everpure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Pre-sales experience is required
โข 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
โข Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
โข Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
โข Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
โข Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
โข Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
โข Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
โข Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
โข Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
โข Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
โข Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
โข Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
Preferred:
โข Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
โข Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
โข Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
Company:
Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.