Pure Storage is hiring a Pre-Sales System Engineer

As a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia, you will architect the data foundation for influential organizations. You will be the technical expert who bridges traditional infrastructure with a cloud-native future, leveraging the Everpure Platform and Portworx to deliver public cloud agility with on-premises security and performance.

What You'll Do

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of customer business drivers and decision-making motivations.
• Connect technology solutions, including the Everpure portfolio, to measurable customer business outcomes.
• Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless customer experience and strategy for revenue growth.
• Articulate the advantages of an Everpure solution.
• Refine sales strategy and tactics, taking command of technical responsibilities.
• Delight customers and teammates with technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed architectures, file systems, and competitive offerings.
• Take control of evaluations, benchmarks and system configurations.
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to secure technical wins.
• Capture requirements and translate customer business needs into innovative solutions.
• Author responses to RFI and RFP documents.
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing.
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges.
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce supporting materials like whitepapers and presentations.
• Stay current with the competition to ensure accurate, differentiated solution positioning.
• Follow market trends and the competitive landscape to promote thought leadership.
• Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first.

What We're Looking For

• Direct pre-sales experience is required.
• 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixing technology, design, and communications.
• 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.
• Experience contributing significantly to or leading responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs.
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN).
• Hands-on experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environments.
• Knowledge of installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, including 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.
• A BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Curiosity and passion for technology and for explaining new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
• Creativity, empathy, an open mind, curiosity and a desire for continuous learning.
• Ability to work from an office in compliance with our in-office environment policies.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with modern web architecture (e.g., LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices).
• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle).

Technical Stack

• Primary Platforms: Everpure Platform, Portworx
• Operating Systems & Virtualization: Linux, VMware
• Cloud & Architecture: AWS, Azure, GCP, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices
• Networking & Storage Protocols: TCP/IP, Ethernet, FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN

Team & Environment

You will partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless customer experience and strategy.

Benefits & Compensation

• Innovation: We celebrate critical thinking and trailblazing.
• Growth: We provide the space and support for meaningful contribution and personal development.
• Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.
• Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.

Work Mode

This role is onsite in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia. We are primarily an in-office environment.

Pure Storage is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other characteristic legally protected by the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are being considered for hire.