Senior Systems Engineer

VAST Data; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

VAST Data, located in Chicago, is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to help define product requirements and provide technical leadership in enterprise storage solutions. The role involves collaborating closely with the R&D team, assisting customers, and contributing to sales strategies. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in sales support for enterprise storage and excel in communication skills. Join a pioneering company at the forefront of AI and data management innovation.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Assist customers with evaluations, system configurations, and installations.
• Work with R&D Engineering to define product requirements and usability.
• Participate in creating sales strategy and take ownership of technical responsibilities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Understanding of unstructured data

Knowledge of virtualization

Sales support for enterprise storage

Job description

VAST Data is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our growing team! This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market." - Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer‑first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

THE ROLE

• Assist 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 take 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.
• 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.