Remote Autonomous Systems Engineer Jobs in Ohio (NOW HIRING)

THE ROLE:

Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), a leader in the data storage and flash technology space, is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. 

As a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in understanding our customers' unique challenges and tailoring Everpure solutions to meet their specific needs. Collaborating closely with the sales team, you will act as a technical expert during the sales process, helping to showcase the value of our products and services.

The selected candidate must reside in the Cincinnati/Dayton area.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer's business and what motivates their decision making
• Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Everpure portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
• 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
• 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
• Take control of evaluations,  benchmarks and system configurations
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
• Capture requirements and translate Customer's business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
• Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning
• Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
• Lead by example living the Everpure Values:  Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first  

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Pre-sales experience is required
• 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
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
• Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
• Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
• Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills

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