Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - DC/MD/VA

THE ROLE:

As a Commercial Pre-Sales Systems Engineer you will partner closely with sales to guide customers through their data and infrastructure challenges with confidence. This role is ideal for a technically curious, customer-focused systems engineer who enjoys translating complex technical concepts into clear business value and adopts a consultative, solution oriented approach in customer interactions. You thrive in dynamic environments, quickly learning and adapting as technologies, customer needs, and market trends evolve.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop an 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
• 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
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
• 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
• Approach your business with a consultative mindset, asking targeted questions to uncover customer requirements, align solutions to measurable business value, and effectively position the full Pure portfolio.

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Pre-sales experience is required
• 3+ years’ relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to commercial accounts preferred
• Ability to learn rapidly, absorb complex concepts, and adapt to evolving technologies and customer needs
• Understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture) preferred
• Experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients needed
• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• 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
• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills

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