Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer

NetApp; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement Plans

Paid Time Off

Stock Purchase Plan

RSUs

Incentives

Job summary

NetApp seeks a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) to translate product capabilities into customer value across hybrid cloud, AI infra, and data management. The role acts as a technical leader, leveraging customer, partner, and field feedback to influence product direction and solution architectures.

The TME collaborates with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to validate solutions, create collateral, and enable field teams, driving customer success in enterprise infrastructure ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, cloud, or related fields.
• Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives from concept through launch.
• Shape FlexPod and CI solution strategy using feedback from customers, partners and field.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives from concept through launch and influence product direction and GTM outcomes.
• Define reference architectures, deployment methodologies, demos, and best practices across compute, networking, storage, virtualization, cloud, and AI.
• Create technical collateral (white papers, blogs, presentations, videos) and enablefield teams.
• Conduct workshops, deep dives, and executive briefings with customers and partners.
• Drive automation, validation tools, deployment frameworks, and monitoring to improve execution.
• Troubleshoot complex infra and solution issues; provide escalation support when needed.
• Represent NetApp at customer engagements, conferences, and partner events.

Skills

Enterprise infrastructure

Hybrid AI infrastructure

Kubernetes

Containers

Automation frameworks

Infrastructure architecture

Communication skills

Leadership

Solution strategy

Influence across org

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/IT or related field

Job description

Job Summary

The CI Solutions team builds, validates, and launches NetApp data management, hybrid cloud, FlexPod, and next-generation AI infrastructure solutions. This role serves as a technical leader and trusted advisor, translating product capabilities and solution architectures into customer value through technical strategy, solution validation, field enablement, and customer success. The TME brings outside-in feedback from customers, partners, and the field to influence product and solution direction across hybrid cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure.

Job Summary

The CI Solutions team builds, validates, and launches NetApp data management, hybrid cloud, FlexPod, and next-generation AI infrastructure solutions. This role serves as a technical leader and trusted advisor, translating product capabilities and solution architectures into customer value through technical strategy, solution validation, field enablement, and customer success. The TME brings outside-in feedback from customers, partners, and the field to influence product and solution direction across hybrid cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure.

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, storage, cloud, technical marketing, product management, solutions architecture, engineering, or related fields.


• Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives from concept through launch and influencing product direction, solution strategy, and go-to-market outcomes.


• Shape FlexPod and CI solution strategy by incorporating customer, partner, and field feedback into roadmap and architecture priorities.


• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Alliances, and technology partners on features, solution requirements, launches, and joint go-to-market execution.


• Develop, validate, and document reference architectures, deployment methodologies, demos, and best practices across compute, networking, storage, virtualization, cloud, and AI ecosystems.


• Build and operate lab and test environments to validate performance, scalability, reliability, security, operational simplicity, and customer use cases.


• Create technical collateral, including white papers, blogs, presentations, videos, demos, product documentation, competitive positioning, and field enablement content.


• Conduct sales, partner, and customer workshops, technical deep dives, briefings, RFP support, and executive presentations.


• Drive automation, validation tools, deployment frameworks, monitoring approaches, and operational improvements that reduce risk and improve execution.


• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and solution-level issues and provide escalation support when required.


• Represent NetApp at customer engagements, conferences, partner events, and industry forums while contributing to thought leadership and market credibility.

Required Skills And Capabilities

• Deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure, including storage and data management, compute, networking, virtualization, Linux, enterprise applications, and databases.


• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud, AI/ML infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, automation frameworks, and infrastructure architecture.


• Ability to connect technical capabilities to differentiated value propositions, customer requirements, market dynamics, and measurable business outcomes.


• Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and storytelling skills for audiences ranging from executives and customers to engineers and architects.


• Proven ability to influence across Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Strategic Alliances, and partner organizations.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with FlexPod, converged infrastructure, AI infrastructure, hybrid cloud, reference architectures, technical marketing, solution engineering, or product management.


• Knowledge of parallel file systems such as IBM Storage Scale or Lustre is a plus.


• Server knowledge across Cisco, Supermicro, or Dell platforms is a plus.


• Hands-on experience with hyperscalers is a plus.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or related technical discipline; advanced degree preferred.

Salary and Benefits

The target salary range for this position is $196,350 to 292,600. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

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.