Consulting Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Pure Storage
SLED, NYC
$228-336k
Data storage company
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Data storage company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$228-336k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- 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. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
- 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
- Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer who brings the rare combination of Field CTO-level vision, enterprise architecture depth, and exceptional customer empathy
- This role is ideal for a technical thought leader who can seamlessly navigate conversations with C-suite executives, IT directors, and systems administrators alike — translating complex technology into clear business value
- You will play a key role in guiding State, Local, and Education (SLED) agencies across the greater New York region through modernization, hybrid-cloud adoption, and data-driven transformation
- 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
Our take
Named one of the top 50 Hottest Edge Hardware, Software, and Services Companies of 2022, Pure Storage is a data storage company that helps tech and software businesses leverage the continuous innovations of AI and machine learning through its storage solutions. From Roblox to NASA, many of Pure Storage’s customers are leaders in their fields.
After seeing rapid revenue growth in the early 2010s despite overall losses, Pure Storage’s 2015 IPO benefitted the company over the next half-decade, spreading losses with public trade. The risk especially paid off when many companies migrated to cloud services in the 2020s.
As data centers flew into the crosshairs of sustainable energy efforts, Pure Storage has remained on the right side of publicity through its Evergreen // One portfolio, a flexible consumption-based storage model for providers. In January 2023, Pure Storage reported continued subscription growth for this model and should continue on track as its hefty and influential client list evolves to meet sustainability goals.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2014
$225m
SERIES F
Aug 2013
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $474.9m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
John Colgrove
(CTO)Previously EIR at Sutter Hill Ventures, Fellow at Symantec Software, and Engineer at Amdahl.
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