Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Cincinnati
Pure StorageCincinnati, Ohio
Full Time
Posted April 13, 2026
$141k - $212k
Not Specified
Remote
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Job Description
A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer 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 customer engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams and partners to drive revenue and customer engagement
- Provide technical leadership on storage products, architectures, and competitive offerings
- Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for storage solutions
- Create and deliver technical presentations to demonstrate product value and 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 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.
- Familiarity with modern web architecture such as the LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, and microservices architecture is a plus.
- 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 environment.
- 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, On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking concepts.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures is a plus.
- Ability to contribute significantly or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
- Must have a strong understanding of supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions.
- Must be able to support evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations.
- Ability to develop and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers.
- Ability to capture customer requirements and translate them into innovative solutions.
- Ability to identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing validation.
- Ability to promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges with clients and partners.
- Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning.
- Strong technical leadership and domain expertise in storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS, and SAN product spaces.
- Curiosity and passion for technology, with the ability to explain and demonstrate new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Physical ability to support technical evaluations, configurations, and presentations as required.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 141,400 - 212,100 USD annually
Role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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