Senior Presales Storage Consultant HPC; Computing & AI platforms; f​/m​/d

Job Description

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Fsas Technologies Europe is a leading provider of advanced data center solutions, empowering its customers and partners in Europe to leverage the performance of their infrastructure for sustainable digital transformation, thanks to its first‑class employees and future‑proof technologies. As a Fujitsu company, Fsas Technologies applies its expertise to realize the Fujitsu Group's goal of building trust in society through innovation and making the world more sustainable.

We offer an appreciative and flexible work environment that promotes work‑life balance and actively supports individual career development. Diversity, equal opportunities, and inclusion are central values of our corporate culture. Together, we have the future in mind – and for that, we need people with foresight.

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Fsas Technologies GmbH. We would like to fill the position at the earliest possible date.

We are significantly enhancing our focus on cutting‑edge technologies with the formation of the Quantum & High‑Performance Computing Strategic Business Unit, Europe. The SBU’s core focus will be to drive revenue growth and scale Fsas Technologies' quantum and HPC business in Germany and across Europe. This central team will lead the effort in defining and executing our forward‑thinking Quantum and High‑Performance Computing business strategy.

We are seeking a Senior Presales Storage Consultant specialized in storage for HPC and AI platforms to join the Quantum & High‑Performance Computing Strategic Business Unit. This role combines strong technical expertise with commercial, communications and team working skills to design tailored technology solutions that meet our customer’s needs in a set of different European countries.

Specifically, the storage consultant will contribute to HPC and AI platform business growth by providing technology support to sales teams located mainly in Germany and other European countries and will be responsible for the storage component of the technical HPC and AI proposals. The consultant will collaborate with other presales and commercial areas within Fsas, as well as external Fsas platform partners and alliances, and will play a key role in identifying requirements, designing the most suitable solution, and supporting the entire sales process, including ensuring the proper positioning of the selected storage solution against competitors.

High proficiency in German and English is required.

• HPC Storage design:
  Capability to design high‑performance storage architectures in collaboration with a HPC consultant leader and other experts in the different areas using:
  • Parallel file systems (e.g. Lustre, BeeGFS, IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS).
  • AI Storage platforms (e.g. WekaIO, BeeGFS).
  • Object storage (e.g. Ceph, DAOS).
  • NVMe‑based solutions (e.g. NVMe‑oF).
  • DDN Exascaler.
  • Netapp E‑Series.
• HPC Storage Architectures:
  Capability to select and recommend the best storage architecture depending on the project requirements, considering the type of storage, its scalability, tolerance to failure and data management (data lifecycle management, backup and archiving).
• Storage Performance optimization:
  Familiarity with storage benchmarking for HPC and AI including IOR and MLPerf, and with storage optimization techniques.
• Storage Ecosystem Management:
  Ability to interact effectively with leading storage vendors including IBM, Netapp, WekaIO, DDN and VAST Data among others.
• HPC Software:
  Understand the overall HPC and AI environment, and the possible impact of MPI, job schedulers (e.g. Slurm), containerization, AI frameworks (Tensor Flow, PyTorch) and other systems management tools (such as Open Nebula or similar ones) when designing the storage infrastructure.
• Presales Engagement:
  Create and maintain a trusted technical relationship with customers and business partners to collaborate and lead the storage solution design. Conduct proof‑of‑concept (PoC) and demonstrations to validate solutions.
• Communications:
  Provide technical presentations…