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Sr. Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Navy

Pure Storage
Washington D.C., District of Columbia
Full Time
Posted December 19, 2025
$133k - $200k
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Job Description

The role involves supporting the sales process for enterprise storage solutions by providing technical expertise, developing tailored solutions, and engaging with customers to demonstrate product value, primarily within the federal DoD sector.

Key Responsibilities

  • Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
  • Collaborate with sales teams 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 and competitive trends

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.
  • 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.
  • Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
  • Experience contributing significant portions or leading 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 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, and microservices architectures like k8s is a plus.
  • Curiosity and passion for technology, with the ability to explain and demonstrate 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: 133,000-200,000 USD annually
Potential incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events

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