Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, SLED-Eastern PA
Pure StoragePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Full Time
Posted December 12, 2025
$133k - $200k
Energy Storage
Remote
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Job Description
A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer role focused on understanding customer needs and demonstrating technical storage solutions to drive sales and support enterprise storage, networking, and cloud architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales and technical teams to drive revenue and customer success
- Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
- Deliver technical presentations and demonstrations to clients
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability and performance validation
- Create technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends
- Support the sales process through RFP, RFI, and RFQ responses
- Maintain 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, and microservices architecture.
- 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, and 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 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 AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures 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.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
- Candidates with SLED (State, Local, Education) experience may be preferred.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range of 133,000-200,000 USD, determined based on role, level, and location
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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