Technical Design Architect

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 ROLEAs a Technical Design Architect (Active Cluster & Cloud) (TDA-ACC) you will utilize your strong technical competencies in the field of replication clustering cloud offerings as well as data migrations to provide the highest level of implementation capability and technical consultation to both customers and Pure sales teams to support sales goals. You will work on cross-functional teams including Sales Product Marketing Business Development Managers Services and engineering to scope and help sell Professional Services solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous solutions to customers/partners.You will become intimately acquainted with the customers/partners business requirements technical needs systems environment and service history enabling you to present targeted solutions to our customer base.You will build replication clustering and migration solutions for our customers and will be expected to be a member of the hands-on team delivering these services across EMEA. The role covers pre-sales and delivery functions and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates.You will possess a thorough understanding of IT architecture designing solutions networking and implementation of these solutions and must have significant experience across different replication technologies clustering cloud and data migration solutions.You will also be experienced in delivering large scale and complex projects utilising all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate.WHAT YOULL DOTDAs work with customers sales teams engineering and Pure partners to:To understand prospects technical needs related to a specific market or specific product (i.e. block virtualised file solutions clustering replication best practice disaster recovery business contingency).In a post-sales consultative role to support the implementation of the professional services solution that was scoped and subsequently sold.To provide technical consultation/education to the sales teams and keep them apprised on new replication offerings and data migrations solutions.Participate in customer evaluations and proof of concepts on Pure systemsAdvise and consult on engineering developments and strategies for replication clustering and data migrations ensuring these solutions meet and integrate into our clients DR and BCP best practices.Plan conduct and direct projects to support sales efforts and address future customer needsEvaluate partner proposals for migration services to ensure they deliver quality and value for money to Pure.Deliver replication clustering and migration solutions to our customers either as a sole resource or member of a team.Develop scripts for both integration of Pure storage into a customers operational environment and the automation of replication clustering cloud and data migrations.WHAT YOULL BRING TO THIS ROLEFlash Array experience / Replication technologies (Active Cluster or similar)Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based offerings.Data Center Migrations/Consolidations/ToolsetsNetworking concepts and high-level designsCirrus Data Solutions Appliance (or Appliance based solutions for migrating block data)Virtualisation Tools - Cisco/Microsoft/VMWare (Cloud solutions)Proven experience of scripting languages such as Perl Shell Powershell Visual Basic Python.Networking infrastructure (Nexus / ACI / Broadcom / Brocade)Security/FirewallsOther technical platform or infrastructure migration tools such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Datadobi StorageX Open Replicator.Data Center Migration Implementations for block and file.Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience.Windows AIX and Linux Operating systemsHyper-V and VMWare ESX (vRA / SRM)Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based offerings.Disaster Recovery Replication Backup technologies (Zerto / Veeam / Rubrik / Veritas NBU)Preparation and delivery of technical and architecture solutionContribute significant portions for data migration solutions to RFPs RFQs and RFIsSuperior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC iSCSI NAS OSD SAN)UNIX OS NFS file systems and UNIX distributed network environmentKnowledge of Local Area Networking Ethernet TCP/IP and general networkingExcellent verbal and written communication skills any languages are a definite benefit (Arabic)Team leadership skillsBS in CS EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.Experience which demonstrates a significant level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell