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 and flash technology industry to drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
Collaborate with sales and technical teams to create a seamless customer experience
Present technical product and architecture solutions to customers to secure technical wins
Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
Support evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for storage products
Identify and develop new opportunities for interoperability and performance testing
Create technical materials such as whitepapers and presentations to support sales and marketing
Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures
Support the sales process by contributing to RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses
Maintain technical expertise in storage architectures, networking, and cloud technologies
Requirements
Pre-sales experience is required with 5 or more years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications.
Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is 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 such as the 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.
Experience contributing significant portions of or leading responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN.
Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment.
Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures is 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 and Oracle is highly desirable.
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Annual base salary range of $137,200 to $206,500 USD
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Accommodations for candidates with disabilities
Inclusive and diverse work environment
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