Senior Solutions Engineer

NetApp; Paris; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NetApp in Paris, France, seeks a Senior Solutions Engineer to translate customer needs into innovative data infrastructure solutions. You will engage with service providers, global system integrators, and their customers to design architectures that leverage NetApp’s portfolio and cloud integrations.

In this role, you’ll act as a trusted technical advisor across the sales cycle, collaborate with executives, and guide customers through digital transformation, including AI and multicloud

Qualifications

• Strong interest in IT trends including public and hybrid clouds, containers, DevOps, and AI.
• Experience advising customers on digital transformation and co-creating solutions.
• Excellent French and English communication, written and spoken.

Responsabilités

• Serve as technical authority across sales cycle.
• Act as trusted advisor guiding complex technical decisions.
• Assess customers' IT environments including cloud, Kubernetes, AI projects.
• Design and deliver customized architectures aligning with goals and NetApp portfolio.
• Present solutions to audiences from technical teams to executives.
• Collaborate with Client Executive for account management and customer success.
• Support full sales cycle by aligning solutions with customer roadmaps.

Connaissances

Cloud computing

Kubernetes

DevOps

Artificial intelligence

Enterprise storage

High availability

French-English communication

Formation

Technical degree or equivalent experience

Outils

NetApp technologies

Google Cloud

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Description du poste

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure- delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Title: Senior Solutions Engineer

Location: Paris, France

Job ID:136312

Job Summary

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in understanding and addressing the unique needs of our service provider and global system integrator customers. You will work with their teams and their final customers to identify challenges, and translate them into innovative technical solutions. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will engage with stakeholders at all levels, adapting your communication style to their specific needs and motivations. Beyond supporting initial technical discussions, you will take ownership of designing and delivering comprehensive solutions that align with customer goals and NetApp’s portfolio.

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority in customer engagements, ensuring a credible and impactful presence throughout the sales cycle.
• Act as a Trusted Advisor, guiding customers through complex technical decisions and long-term architectural strategies.
• Assess and analyze customers’ current IT environments, including cloud platforms, IT infrastructure, networks, applications, Kubernetes and AI projects.
• Design and deliver customized solution architectures that align with customer transformation goals, business priorities, and NetApp’s capabilities.
• Present technical solutions to diverse audiences, from technical teams to C-level executives, clearly articulating the value and rationale behind the proposed designs.
• Collaborate closely with the Client Executive to ensure a unified and strategic approach to account management and customer success.
• Address complex technical inquiries with confidence, providing expert guidance and ensuring high-quality execution.
• Support the full sales cycle by aligning technical solutions with customer roadmaps, leveraging NetApp’s portfolio to drive value and innovation.

Job Requirements

• Strong interest in emerging IT trends and technologies, including public and hybrid clouds, containerization, DevOps practices, and artificial intelligence.
• A passion for advising customers on their digital transformation journey, with a focus on co-creating innovative solutions.
• Analytical mindset with a creative and team-oriented approach to problem-solving.
• Solid technical knowledge in areas such as enterprise/cloud computing, virtualization, storage, backup, and high availability solutions.
• Familiarity with NetApp technologies is a strong plus.
• A degree in a technical field or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent communication skills in French and English, both written and verbal.
• Previous professional experience managing technical relationships with partners, particularly within the service provider and global system integrator segments.
• Demonstrated ability to self-learn and quickly acquire new technical skills, with a proactive approach to continuous learning and development.
• Experience working in an inclusive team environment where field experience and expertise are highly shared, fostering a collaborative and interactive culture.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You’ll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed- they drive everything we do.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support- rather than replace- human decision-making.