Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Chicago
Pure StoragePosted March 4, 2025
Chicago, Illinois
Energy Management$137k - $207k
Full Time
Job Description
The Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage will lead technical sales efforts by understanding customer challenges and tailoring innovative data storage solutions to meet their needs, while collaborating with sales teams to drive revenue growth.
Responsibilities
- •Develop an exhaustive understanding of customer business drivers and decision-making processes
- •Connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes
- •Collaborate with account managers and partners to create a seamless customer experience
- •Demonstrate technical leadership and expertise in storage products and architectures
- •Manage evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
- •Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations
- •Capture customer requirements and translate them into innovative solutions
- •Lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
- •Identify new opportunities for interoperability and performance testing validation
- •Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce supporting materials
- •Stay current with competition and market trends
Requirements
- •BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.
- •Pre-sales experience is required.
- •5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required.
- •Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts 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.
- •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.
- •Installation 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-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.
Benefits
- •Annual base salary range: 137,200 - 206,500
- •Flexible time off
- •Wellness resources
- •Company-sponsored team events
- •Incentive pay and/or equity
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