A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage is responsible for understanding customer needs, demonstrating technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts in the data storage industry, with a focus on storage architectures, cloud integration, and innovative technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
Collaborate with sales team and partners to create a seamless customer experience and drive revenue
Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products and architectures
Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
Deliver technical presentations and demonstrations to secure customer buy-in
Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support their growth
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
Create technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends and competitors
Requirements
Pre-sales experience of 5 or more years 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.
Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture such as the LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture (preferred).
Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage solutions, including storage architectures such as FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN.
Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
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, including On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
Familiarity with VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking concepts.
Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures (preferred).
Experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
Ability to contribute significantly to or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range of $137,200 to $206,500 USD, potentially including incentive pay and equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Ready to Apply?
Join Pure Storage and make an impact in renewable energy