A Systems Engineering Manager responsible for leading and mentoring a team of pre-sales engineers to drive technical sales, develop customer solutions, and promote Pure Storage's data storage and cloud solutions to enterprise clients.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and mentor the Systems Engineering team to drive performance and growth.
Manage technical partnerships with large System Integrators for joint sales efforts.
Develop and execute an annual operating plan to achieve business outcomes.
Guide account teams on activities to increase deal success and revenue growth.
Understand customer business drivers and connect technology solutions to customer outcomes.
Collaborate with account managers, specialists, and partners to create a seamless customer experience.
Demonstrate and communicate the advantages of Pure Storage solutions through technical presentations.
Translate customer business needs into innovative storage solutions.
Respond to RFI, RFP, and RFQ proposals with technical expertise.
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation.
Requirements
Experience in supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions.
Experience in both pre-sales and partner enablement.
Five or more years of relevant people manager experience.
Familiarity with modern web architecture such as LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture (preferred).
Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN, Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment.
Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture, On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers (plus).
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP (plus).
Client-facing experience in proposing AI/ML solutions (plus).
Experience in installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree, or equivalent experience.
Curiosity and passion for technology, with the ability to explain and demonstrate new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
Work in an in-office environment at the specified OFFICE_LOCATION in compliance with company policies (mandatory).
Benefits & Perks
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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