Pure Storage · 4 hours ago
Senior Systems Engineer, Global Strategics, Financials
New York, New York
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$133K/yr - $228K/yr
5+ years expPure Storage is fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry, seeking innovative thinkers to join their team. The Senior Systems Engineer will develop a deep understanding of customer business motivations, work closely with account managers to enhance customer experiences, and lead technical presentations and strategies to drive revenue growth.
Cloud ComputingData StorageEnterprise Software
Responsibilities
Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Pure Storage portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Pure Storage solution
Refine sales strategy and tactics, taking command of technical responsibilities
Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
Take control of evaluations, benchmarks and system configurations
Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
Author responses to RFI & RFPs
Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning
Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first
Qualification
Required
Creativity, empathy, an open mind, curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
Pre-sales experience is required
5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required
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
Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
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
BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
Preferred
Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP
Familiarity with containers, k8s and microservices architectures
Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle)
Benefits
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Company
Pure Storage
Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$529.26MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceIndex VenturesRedpoint
2015-10-06IPO
2014-08-11Secondary Market· $60M
2014-04-22Series F· $225M
Leadership Team
Charles Giancarlo
CEO and Chairman
John Colgrove
CTO
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