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 within a dynamic, innovative company.
Key Responsibilities
Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
Collaborate with sales and technical teams to create a seamless customer experience
Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for storage products
Deliver technical presentations and demonstrations to clients to secure technical wins
Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support their growth
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
Develop technical materials such as whitepapers and web presentations to support product positioning
Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures
Support the sales process through RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses with technical expertise
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 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 cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, 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 SQL and Oracle is highly desirable.
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range of 133,000-200,000 USD, determined based on role, level, and location
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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