Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Wisconsin

Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Wisconsin

A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer responsible for understanding customer needs, demonstrating technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts in the data storage industry, with a focus on storage architectures, cloud integration, and client-server solutions.

• Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
• Collaborate with sales teams and partners to drive revenue and create a seamless customer experience
• Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage architectures and products
• Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
• Deliver technical presentations and articulate the value of solutions to customers
• Translate customer requirements into innovative technical solutions to support growth
• Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
• Support the creation of technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends
• Contribute to responses for RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs related to storage solutions

• Pre-sales experience of 5 or more years supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions.
• Familiarity with modern web architecture such as the LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, and microservices architecture is a plus.
• Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage solutions and converting prospects into clients, including contributing to or leading responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
• Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
• Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture, On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
• Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking concepts.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and microservices architectures including containers and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Curiosity and passion for technology, with the ability to explain and demonstrate new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases like SQL and Oracle, is highly desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.

Salary range: 141, USD annually

Role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity