A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage is responsible for understanding customer needs, demonstrating technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts to drive revenue in the data storage industry through technical expertise and strategic engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with sales team and partners to create customer strategies that drive revenue and new business
Understand customer business needs and connect technology solutions to measurable outcomes
Demonstrate the value of Pure Storage solutions through technical presentations and discussions
Lead evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for customer assessments
Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
Respond to RFI, RFP, and RFQ documents with technical solutions
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
Develop technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends and competition
Support pre-sales activities including discovery, sizing, and objection handling
Maintain technical expertise in storage architectures, networking, cloud platforms, and related technologies
Requirements
Pre-sales experience is required
Minimum of 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
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, SAN, Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems
Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus
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
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree, or equivalent experience
Familiarity with modern web architecture such as LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture is a plus
Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining new technology platforms and concepts to customers
Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases SQL, Oracle is highly desirable
Ability to work from the OFFICE_LOCATION office in compliance with company policies, unless on PTO, work travel, or other approved leave
Benefits & Perks
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Opportunities for growth and development
Inclusive and diverse work environment
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