Commercial Pre-Sales Systems Engineer

TL;DR

Commercial Pre-Sales Systems Engineer: Serving as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, helping them design resilient, secure, and future-ready data platforms that support real business outcomes with an accent on cyber recovery, risk reduction, and modernization. Focus on translating business objectives into secure, resilient, and scalable architectures, delivering technical demonstrations and managing proof-of-concepts.

Location: Preference is local to the Alpharetta, GA office. Within Territory (Minnesota or Iowa).

Salary: $125,500—$288,500 USD

Company

hirify.global provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence.

What you will do

• Lead complex pre-sales engagements, including discovery, architecture design, solution positioning, and technical validation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to IT practitioners, engineers, architects, and senior leaders by translating business objectives into secure, resilient, and scalable architectures.
• Deliver compelling technical demonstrations and executive-level presentations that clearly articulate business value, cyber risk reduction, and operational outcomes.
• Design and manage proof-of-concepts (POCs) to technical closure, aligned to customer success criteria and operational realities.
• Collaborate with customers and partners to define architectural strategies supporting data resilience, ransomware recovery, compliance, and hybrid-cloud adoption.
• Create tailored proposals and contribute to enterprise-scale RFP and RFx responses.

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of experience in pre-sales systems engineering, solutions architecture, or related technical customer-facing roles, supporting mid-market to enterprise customers.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively own technical execution for assigned sales opportunities, driving progress across discovery, solution design, technical validation, and proof-of-concept (POC) activities.
• Proven experience managing multiple concurrent technical engagements, balancing depth of technical involvement with responsiveness, prioritization, and consistent deal momentum.
• Strong foundational technical background across enterprise infrastructure domains, including data resilience, compute and virtualization platforms, cloud services, networking, and security, with the ability to apply this knowledge to customer challenges and business objectives.
• Ability to identify technical risks, gaps, and dependencies early, and work collaboratively with sales and internal teams to address them and keep opportunities moving forward.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to lead customer-facing technical discussions, presentations, demonstrations, and workshops for IT practitioners, architects, and management-level audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience working with public cloud and SaaS platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform, including exposure to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, including basic administration, troubleshooting, and performance considerations in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on exposure to enterprise infrastructure technologies, including virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), enterprise storage systems, identity and access management solutions, and Kubernetes or container-based platforms used in modern application environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays, plus 4 extra global hirify.globale Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through hirify.global Cares
• Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning