Senior Systems Engineer - Hedge Funds

Drive Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Drive Capital is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support our hedge fund clients. The role involves assisting with evaluations and system installations, working closely with R&D to define product specifications, and demonstrating expertise in storage products. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience with enterprise storage sales, are adaptable in unstructured environments, and possess strong communication skills. This full-time position is based in Greater London.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.
• Ability to perform in an unstructured environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assisting customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and installations.
• Work closely with R&D Engineering in defining product requirements.
• Participate in the creation of sales strategy and technical responsibilities.
• Demonstrate subject matter expertise on storage products.

Skills

Sales support experience

Technical leadership

Strong communication skills

Understanding of virtualization

Knowledge of enterprise security

Job description

Senior Systems Engineer - Hedge Funds

• Systems Engineering
• London
• Full-time

Responsibilities

• Assisting customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations.
• Work closely with VAST R&D Engineering in helping to define product requirements and usability, including the creation of product specification documents.
• Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and takes ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.
• Demonstrate technical leadership and subject matter expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces.
• Creation of architecture blueprints for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to the customer community.
• Help with the development of a dispersed group of system and field engineers.
• Assist with the recruiting and hiring and development of the Sales and Sales Engineering team.
• Consult on how to form and build and manage a Support organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations
• Positive energy, optimism and vision.
• Ability to perform in an unstructured environment.
• Understanding of classic unstructured data applications and next-generation analytics and web frameworks.
• Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers and trainees.
• Knowledge of virtualization, high-performance networking and enterprise security.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.