A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage is responsible for understanding customer needs, designing tailored storage solutions, and demonstrating the value of the company's data storage products to drive sales and customer success.
Key Responsibilities
Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
Collaborate with sales team, account managers, and partners to drive revenue and customer success
Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products and architectures
Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
Create and deliver technical presentations to clients to secure technical wins
Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
Develop technical marketing materials such as whitepapers and web presentations
Stay current with industry trends, competition, and emerging storage architectures
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 LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture
Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is preferred
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 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-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), 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 like 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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