Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Toronto

September 11

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Pure Storage

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Helping innovators uncomplicate data storage, forever.

Enterprise Storage • Data Center • Server virtualization • Desktop virtualization • Oracle database

1001 - 5000

Description

•Understand customer challenges and tailor Pure Storage solutions •Collaborate with sales to act as technical expert •Showcase product and service value •Develop understanding of customer business motivation •Connect technology to customer business outcomes •Partner with account managers for seamless experience •Promote Pure Storage solution advantages •Provide technical leadership on storage products •Oversee evaluations and system configurations •Deliver technical presentations to customers •Translate business needs into innovative solutions •Lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs •Identify opportunities for testing and validation •Contribute to product and technical marketing materials

Requirements

•BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience •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 •Must have 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 •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 a plus •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

Benefits

•Flexible time off •Wellness resources •Company-sponsored team events