Pre-Sales Systems Engineer Enterprise

Were in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here you lead with innovative thinking grow along with us and join the smartest team in the industry.This type of workwork that changes the worldis what the tech industry was founded on. So if youre ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark come join us.THE ROLEPure Storage is seeking a highly motivated and strategic Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer (SE) to join our team in Dubai UAE focused exclusively on accelerating digital transformation within Enterprise and Public Sector clients.This role is not simply about selling storage in the cloud or on premise; its about partnering with critical government entities and Enterprise clients to design architect and deploy the secure simplified and sustainable data foundation required to support Pures continued rapid growth in the region. Theres no better way to do that than with Pures Enterprise Data CloudWHAT YOULL DODevelop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customers business and what motivates their decision makingConnect the dots from technology solutions inclusive of the Pure Storage portfolio and others from the ecosystem to measurable customer business outcomesPartner closely with account managers specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new businessPassionately bring to light the advantages of a Pure Storage solutionRefine sales strategy and tactics taking command of technical responsibilitiesDelight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products distributed storage architectures file systems and competitive storage offerings in the DAS NAS and SAN product spacesTake control of evaluations benchmarks and system configurationsBuild and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigour to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accountsCapture requirements and translate Customers business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacityAuthor responses to RFI & RFPsSeek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability functional and performance testing/validationPromote mutual roadmap and planning exchangesLiaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. Whitepaper web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectivesStay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest differentiated solution positioningMove with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organisationLead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence Creativity Teamwork Ownership and Customer-firstWHAT YOU BRINGCreativity empathy an open mind curiosity and a desire for continuous learningPre-sales experience is required5 or more years of relevant experience mixed among technology design and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage networking systems cloud or software to enterprise accounts preferredDeep understanding of the architecture design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutionsPrior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clientsContribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs RFQs and RFIsSuperior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC iSCSI NAS OSD SAN)Linux NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environmentFamiliarity with AWS Azure GCP a plusInstallation/configuration of distributed computing multiprocessing virtual memory subsystem storage subsystems architecture shared memory architectures cache architectures windowing systemsFamiliarity with containers K8s and Microservices architectures a plusStrong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture On-Prem Public Cloud Provisioning Automation and ContainersKnowledge of VMware Local Area Networking Ethernet TCP/IP and general networkingExcellent verbal and written interpersonal skillsBS in CS EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experienceMust have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack scale-out vs scale-up architectures AWS well-architected framework Microservices architecture)Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customersWe are primarily an in-office environment and therefore you will be expected to work from the Dubai office in compliance with Pures policies unless you are on PTO or work travel or other approved leave.Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL Oracle) is highly desirable#LI-ONSITEWHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:Pure Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically like a challenge and aspire to be trailblazers.Pure Growth: We give you the