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Pure Storage

Delivers all-flash storage hardware and services

Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer

Pre-Sales Solution EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in AustriaNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • Pre-sales experience is required.
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience mixed among technology, design, and communications is required.
  • Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions.
  • Prior experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
  • Contribute significant portions to or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
  • Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures, including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
  • Knowledge of Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
  • Experience installing and configuring distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystem architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
  • Strong knowledge of digital transformation to cloud-native architecture, on-premises environments, public cloud, provisioning automation, and containers.
  • Knowledge of VMware, local area networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
  • Fluency in German and English is required.
  • A BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • Curiosity and passion for technology and for explaining and demonstrating new technology platforms and concepts to customers.

Responsibilities

  • Develop a thorough understanding of what drives a customer's business and decision-making.
  • Connect technology solutions, including the company's portfolio and ecosystem offerings, to measurable customer business outcomes.
  • Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to create a seamless customer experience and strategy that drives revenue growth and new business.
  • Present the advantages of the company's solutions to customers.
  • Refine sales strategy and tactics while taking command of technical responsibilities.
  • Provide technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in DAS, NAS, and SAN product spaces.
  • Manage evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations.
  • Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers and prospective accounts to secure technical wins.
  • Capture customer requirements and translate business needs into solutions that support customer growth and capacity.
  • Author responses to RFI and RFP requests.
  • Identify and promote opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation.
  • Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges.
  • Work with product and technical marketing to produce materials, including white papers and web presentations, that support alliance plans and objectives.
  • Keep current with competitors and ensure materials accurately reflect differentiated solution positioning.
  • Track market trends and the competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within the organization.
  • Model company values of persistence, creativity, teamwork, ownership, and customer-first service.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
  • Familiarity with modern web architecture, including the LAMP stack, scale-out versus scale-up architectures, the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and microservices architecture.
  • Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases including SQL and Oracle.

About the Company

Pure Storage

Delivers all-flash storage hardware and services

Pure Storage provides data storage solutions including all-flash storage arrays, cloud storage, hybrid cloud, and data protection services. Its products work by using flash memory to deliver fast data access, with Evergreen One offering a subscription-based, continuous update and maintenance model that keeps hardware and software up to date without replacing hardware. The company differentiates itself from competitors through a focus on high-performance all-flash storage, scalable data management, and a subscription-based Evergreen model that sustains ongoing software/firmware updates. Its goal is to help businesses manage, protect, and access their data efficiently at scale with sustainable, environmentally friendly storage solutions.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Santa Clara, CA
Founded
2009

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