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