Senior Systems Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Systems Engineer: Acting as a trusted technical and strategic advisor to large enterprise customers facing complex data resilience and cyber recovery challenges with an accent on designing secure, resilient, and future-ready architectures across hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments. Focus on hands-on technical expertise with executive-level influence, driving real business outcomes through resilient data platforms.

Location: Remote

Salary: $222,200 — $412,700 CAD

Company

hirify.global is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale.

What you will do

• Lead complex enterprise pre-sales engagements, including discovery, solution design, architecture validation, and technical closure.
• Translate business objectives into secure, scalable, and resilient technical architectures for enterprise customers.
• Deliver high-impact technical demonstrations and executive-level presentations focused on business value and cyber risk reduction.
• Design, manage, and execute proof-of-concepts (POCs) aligned to customer success criteria and operational realities.
• Collaborate with sales teams, partners, product management, and engineering to influence solution architecture and customer outcomes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture, or senior technical leadership roles within enterprise environments.
• Foundational understanding of AI, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs), with the ability to articulate how trusted, resilient data underpins AI initiatives.
• Proven success leading complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles including discovery, solution design, POCs, and executive engagements.
• Strong technical foundation across data resilience, infrastructure platforms, cloud services, networking, and security.
• Solid understanding of data security, privacy, governance, and regulatory considerations for enterprise customers.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage C-level executives and senior IT leaders.

Nice to have

• Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Hands-on knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems in enterprise deployments.
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, or Nutanix AHV.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and cloud-native data protection.
• Background working with data protection, cyber resilience, or enterprise infrastructure vendors.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation starting at 15 days per year and increasing to 20 or 25 days based on tenure, with 4 additional global hirify.globale Days and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through hirify.global Cares.
• Paid parental leave that includes 3 weeks for all parents and 12 weeks for birthing parents.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage from day one.
• Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools.
• RRSP retirement plan with 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.