Purestorage
Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Federal (Air Force)
Remote, United States. Posted a month ago
The role
You will translate mission and technology requirements into data-storage solutions for U.S. Air Force and federal defense customers. You will serve as a technical advisor and partner with account managers to demonstrate the Everpure portfolio.
What you will do
- Build understanding of U.S. Air Force and federal customers missions and technical environments.
- Connect Everpure solutions to customer outcomes across storage, cloud, and modernization.
- Partner with account managers and channel partners to drive revenue growth.
- Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations.
- Develop and deliver technical presentations and architecture discussions.
- Provide technical leadership on storage products and competitive offerings.
- Capture customer requirements and identify opportunities for interoperability and performance validation.
- Contribute to RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses.
- Stay current on market trends, competitors, and emerging technologies.
- Lead by example through Everpure's values.
Required qualifications
- Demonstrated pre-sales experience supporting enterprise technology customers.
- Five or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, technical communications, or a related field.
- Experience supporting the sale of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions to enterprise or federal customers.
- Strong understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing architectures.
- Knowledge of modern cloud-native architectures, on-premises and public-cloud environments, provisioning automation, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices.
- Experience with storage architectures and protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NAS, object or software-defined storage, and SAN.
- Working knowledge of Linux, NFS file systems, distributed computing environments, VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and with storage-intensive applications such as SQL and Oracle databases.
- Ability to lead technical discovery and translate business needs into solution architectures.
- Experience targeting new prospects and developing relationships.
- Curiosity, technical passion, and the ability to explain and demonstrate emerging platforms.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, or other federal customers
Benefits
- Flexible time off
- Wellness resources
- Company-sponsored team events
About the company
Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform. Its strategic agenda spans hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem.