Senior Systems Engineer

Drive Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepstreamtech is seeking an experienced sales support professional to drive enterprise storage solutions. The role involves assisting customers with evaluations, defining product specifications in collaboration with R&D, and providing technical leadership in distributed storage architectures. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in sales for large IT organizations, strong communication skills, and knowledge of virtualization and network security. This is a pivotal role in an innovative company redefining data infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.
• Positive energy, optimism, and vision.
• Understanding of classic unstructured data applications and modern analytics frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system installations.
• Define product requirements and usability collaborating with R&D Engineering.
• Demonstrate technical leadership on storage products and architectures.

Skills

Enterprise storage sales experience

Excellent communication skills

Technical product presentation

Knowledge of virtualization and networking

Ability to work in unstructured environments

Job description

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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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 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
• Consult on how to form and build and manage a Support organization