Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, SLED (MN/WI/IL)

Role Overview

As a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in understanding our customers’ unique challenges and tailoring Everpure solutions to meet their specific needs. Collaborating closely with the sales team, you will act as a technical expert during the sales process, helping to showcase the value of our products and services.

What You Will Do

Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making. Connect the dots from technology solutions 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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will 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.

Requirements

• 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
• Familiarity with modern web architecture (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture) a plus
• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
• 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

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Wellness resources
• Company-sponsored team events
• Incentive pay
• Equity
• Paid holidays