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 and technical teams to create a seamless customer experience
Present and demonstrate storage products and architectures to customers
Translate customer requirements into innovative technical solutions
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
Support the creation of technical marketing materials and competitive positioning
Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures
Support the sales process through technical evaluations, benchmarks, and configurations
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 knowledge of FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN storage architectures.
Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
Ability to contribute significantly to or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
Knowledge of 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.
Familiarity with VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking concepts.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and familiarity with containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus.
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Must have pre-sales experience supporting enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions.
Understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based solutions.
Experience with storage solutions including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN, and storage-intensive applications such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle).
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 151,900 - 228,200 USD
Role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Accommodations for candidates with disabilities
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