And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
Key Responsibilities
Are you ready to architect the data foundation for some of the world’s most influential organisations? As a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer for Everpure in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia, you won’t just be selling storage; you’ll be enabling the digital transformation of global giants.
In a region where data scale is measured in exabytes and "downtime" is not in the vocabulary, your mission is to show our clients how to break free from the "legacy tax" of storage and drive them in to the future. You will be the technical mastermind bridging the gap between traditional infrastructure and a cloud-native future, leveraging the Everpure Platform and Portworx to deliver the agility of the public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises systems.
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
Passionately bring to light the advantages of an Everpure solution
Refine sales strategy and tactics, taking command of technical responsibilities
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 vigour 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
Author responses to RFI & RFPs
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 organisation
Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first
Requirements
Creativity, empathy, an open mind, curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
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
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)
Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP a plus
Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
Familiarity with containers, k8s and Microservices architectures a plus
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
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, Microservices architecture)
Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
We are primarily an in-office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work remotely in compliance with Everpure's policies. Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
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