Senior Systems Engineer, AI-Ready Storage & Data Platform

VAST Data, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VAST Data is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join a fast-growing team focused on AI-era data infrastructure. You will assist customers with evaluations, configurations, and installations while collaborating with R&D to define product needs and usability.

You will lead technical discussions, create architecture blueprints, and help build a scalable support and services approach across DAS, NAS, and SAN environments. Strong communication is essential.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Unstructured environment adaptability

Verbal and written communication

Tools

Virtualization

Networking

Enterprise security

Storage architectures

Job description

VAST Data is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join a fast-growing team focused on AI-era data infrastructure. You will assist customers with evaluations, configurations, and installations while collaborating with R&D to define product needs and usability.

You will lead technical discussions, create architecture blueprints, and help build a scalable support and services approach across DAS, NAS, and SAN environments. Strong communication is essential.