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Sr. Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, DoD-Spaceforce MDA

Pure Storage
Denver, Colorado
Full Time
Posted October 27, 2025
$133k - $200k
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Job Description

The role involves acting as a technical expert in pre-sales activities for enterprise storage solutions, understanding customer needs, designing tailored technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts to drive revenue growth in the data storage industry.

Key Responsibilities

  • Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
  • Collaborate with sales and technical teams to drive revenue and customer success
  • Present technical product and architecture solutions to customers
  • Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions
  • Support evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
  • Identify and develop new opportunities for interoperability and testing
  • Create technical materials such as whitepapers and presentations
  • Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies
  • Support the sales process through RFP/RFI responses and 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 LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, 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, 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, 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 AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), 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, Oracle is highly desirable.
  • Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.

Benefits & Perks

Annual base salary range of 133,000-200,000 USD, with potential incentive pay and equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events

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