The role involves acting as a technical expert in pre-sales activities for data storage solutions, understanding customer needs, designing tailored technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts to drive revenue and customer success in the enterprise storage industry.
Key Responsibilities
Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
Collaborate with sales team and partners to drive revenue and create a seamless customer experience
Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products and architectures
Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
Deliver technical presentations and articulate the value of solutions to customers
Translate customer requirements into innovative technical solutions to support 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.
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, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is preferred.
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-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, and microservices architectures like k8s is a plus.
Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining/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.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 137,200 - 206,500 USD annually
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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