Pure Storage · 2 weeks ago
Consulting Systems Engineer, SLED-Austin
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$152K/yr - $228K/yr
8+ years expPure Storage is fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. They are seeking a Consulting Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to guide State, Local, and Education (SLED) agencies through modernization and data-driven transformation, leveraging technical leadership and exceptional customer empathy.
Cloud ComputingData StorageEnterprise Software
Responsibilities
Act as role model and mentor for other Systems Engineers
Work alongside SEM to provide technical leadership and support
Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
Be an active creator of social media content e.g. blogs, posts, etc
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
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
Undertake presentations, solution demonstrations and EBC activity within other SE accounts as appropriate and needed
Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
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
Be seen as the solution expert in complex POC and TCO calculations
Qualification
Required
BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
Pre-sales experience is required
8 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required
Creativity, empathy, an open mind, curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
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
Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
Preferred
Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts
Familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP a plus
Familiarity with containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
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
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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
Michael Cornwell
CTO - Americas
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