The role involves supporting sales by providing technical expertise in enterprise storage solutions, guiding customers through technical evaluations, and developing tailored solutions to meet their data and infrastructure needs, primarily in a pre-sales capacity.
Key Responsibilities
Partner with sales to guide customers through data and infrastructure challenges
Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for customers
Develop understanding of customer business drivers and decision-making factors
Demonstrate and promote the advantages of Pure Storage solutions
Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations
Create and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers
Capture customer requirements and design innovative solutions to meet their needs
Respond to RFI, RFP, and RFQ documents with tailored technical proposals
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
Collaborate with marketing to produce technical materials and support product positioning
Requirements
Pre-sales experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, or systems solutions to a combination of large enterprise accounts and data centers, with a minimum of 5-10 years of experience.
Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions.
Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
Experience in contributing significant portions and/or leading responses to Private and Public Sector RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs, including PaP responses.
Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN, UNIX OS, NFS file systems, and UNIX distributed network environment.
Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
Knowledge of VMWare, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills in English.
Familiarity with modern web architecture such as LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, and NoSQL alternatives.
Application knowledge relevant to storage solutions is highly desirable.
Channel partner customer training and enablement experience is desirable.
Benefits & Perks
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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