Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer (Data Storage)

TL;DR

Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer (Data Storage): Driving innovation by understanding customer challenges and tailoring hirify.global solutions with an accent on technical leadership and domain expertise in storage products and distributed storage architectures. Focus on building and delivering technical product and architecture presentations and translating customer business needs into innovative solutions.

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina. This role is eligible for remote work, and salaries are determined based on location.

Salary: $137,200–$206,500 USD

Company

hirify.global is a leader in the data storage and flash technology space.

What you will do

• Understand customer business drivers and decision-making processes.
• Connect technology solutions, including the hirify.global portfolio, to measurable customer business outcomes.
• Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to create a seamless customer experience and drive revenue.
• Provide technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, and file systems.
• Lead evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for clients.
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers and prospective accounts.
• Capture requirements and translate customer business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate growth and capacity.
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges with clients.

Requirements

• Pre-sales experience is required.
• 5 or more years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications.
• Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is preferred.
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions.
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN).
• Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
• 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.
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with modern web architecture (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture).
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle).

Culture & Benefits

• Emphasizes innovation, growth, and teamwork, aspiring to be trailblazers.
• Named Fortune's Best Large Workplaces in the Bay Area, Best Workplaces for Millennials, and certified as a Great Place to Work®.
• Offers a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
• Committed to fostering the growth and development of every person, cultivating community through Employee Resource Groups, and advocating for inclusive leadership.