Sr. Pre Sales Systems Engineer

Pure Storage

Remote United States

Company Information

Pure Storage is a leader in the data storage and flash technology industry.

Responsibilities

  • Understand customer business and decision-making drivers
  • Connect technology solutions to measurable business outcomes
  • Collaborate with account managers and channel partners
  • Showcase Pure Storage advantages
  • Delight customers with technical leadership
  • Control evaluations and system configurations
  • Build and deliver technical presentations
  • Capture requirements and translate into innovative solutions
  • Lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
  • Promote interoperability and functional testing/validation
  • Liaise with product and technical marketing for materials production
  • Stay current with competition and market trends
  • Exemplify Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, Customer-first

Mandatory Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • Pre-sales experience
  • 5 or more years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications
  • Deep understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
  • Knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
  • Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
  • Installation/configuration of distributed computing and storage subsystems architecture
  • Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture
  • Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP

Preferred Requirements

  • Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software
  • Familiarity with modern web architecture (LAMP stack, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Familiarity with containers, k8s and microservices architectures
  • Curiosity and passion around explaining new technology platforms to customers
  • Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and requirements (SQL, Oracle)

Benefits

  • Flexible time off
  • Wellness resources
  • Company-sponsored team events