A Pre-Sales Systems Engineer responsible for designing and presenting storage solutions to enterprise and government clients, supporting sales efforts, and driving technical engagement to promote Pure Storage's data storage products and architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Design, architect, and deploy secure, simplified, and sustainable data storage solutions for enterprise and government clients.
Understand customer business needs and translate them into technical solutions using Pure Storage and ecosystem products.
Collaborate with sales teams, partners, and marketing to create customer strategies and technical presentations.
Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities.
Respond to RFI, RFP, and RFQ documents with tailored technical proposals.
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation of storage solutions.
Stay current with industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies to promote thought leadership.
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
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, 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, windowing systems
Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus
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
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
BS 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
Must be able to work from the OFFICE_LOCATION office in compliance with company policies, unless on PTO, work travel, or other approved leave
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range (not specified)
Work schedule (flexible time off)
Work environment perks (wellness resources, company-sponsored team events)
Opportunities for growth and contribution to meaningful projects
Supportive and inclusive team culture
Accommodations for disabilities during hiring process
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