Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Houston at Purestorage

Purestorage

Houston, Texas·2h ago

SeniorFull-timeAWSGCPAzureMicroservicesGit

Salary Range

$132,600 - $179,400 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

Pure Storage, a leader in data storage and flash technology, is seeking a talented and motivated Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role involves understanding customer challenges and tailoring Pure Storage solutions to meet their specific needs.

Key Responsibilities

→Develop an understanding of what drives a customer’s business and their decision-making process
→Connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes
→Partner with account managers and channel partners to create a seamless customer experience
→Provide technical leadership on storage products and distributed storage architectures
→Take control of evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
→Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations
→Capture requirements and translate business needs into innovative solutions
→Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
→Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce supporting materials
→Stay current with competition and ensure materials reflect the latest solution positioning
→Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first

Requirements

✓Pre-sales experience is required
✓5 or more years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications
✓Deep understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
✓Familiarity with modern web architecture (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
✓Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
✓Superior 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, 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
✓Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s and microservices architectures
✓Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining new technology platforms to customers
✓Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle)
✓Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills