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.