Purestorage

Consulting Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Strategics - NYC

New York, New York; Newark, New Jersey. Posted 16 days ago

The role

The Consulting Pre-Sales Systems Engineer acts as the senior technical lead for a portfolio of large financial institutions. You will own technical strategies, design solutions for AI infrastructure and data platforms, and lead complex technical pursuits.

What you will do

  • Build and maintain the technical account plan including customer architecture and roadmap.
  • Act as the technical counterpart for infrastructure architects and technology executives.
  • Lead technical pursuits including solution design, RFI/RFP responses, and proofs of concept.
  • Help customers design container, storage, and data layers for AI at scale.
  • Run motions around Kubernetes, OpenShift, virtualization, and cyber resilience.
  • Orchestrate specialists, professional services, and partner engineers.
  • Partner with the GAM on account planning, forecast, and pipeline hygiene.
  • Represent financial institution requirements to product management to shape roadmap priorities.

Required qualifications

  • Ten or more years in enterprise infrastructure.
  • At least five years in a customer-facing presales, solutions architecture or field engineering role.
  • Direct experience covering large financial services institutions.
  • Hands-on command of enterprise block, file and object storage, data protection and replication.
  • Working fluency across virtualization, Kubernetes and container platforms (OpenShift in particular).
  • Working fluency in networking for storage (Ethernet, NVMe over TCP, RDMA, Fibre Channel).
  • Working fluency in at least one major public cloud.
  • Strong Executive communication skills.
  • A track record of winning technical evaluations against established storage and infrastructure vendors.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with analytics and lakehouse platforms, data governance and data discovery.
  • Exposure to GPU infrastructure and AI workloads (NVIDIA DGX, SuperPOD, GPUDirect Storage, etc).
  • Relevant certifications (Kubernetes, Red Hat, cloud, NVIDIA or major storage platforms).
  • Prior experience with Everpure FlashArray, FlashBlade or Portworx.

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.

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