System Engineer, Queensland

purestorage; United States; Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly travel schedule

Wellness resources

Job summary

Pure Storage in Queensland seeks a seasoned Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support enterprise customers with our data platform and storage portfolio. You will blend deep storage/cloud tech with consultative selling to map solutions to business outcomes.

Your role requires 5+ years in pre-sales or related fields, strong Linux and storage architecture knowledge, and experience with RFI/RFP responses. Travel to meet customers is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of pre-sales or equivalent experience
• Deep understanding of storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, SAN)
• Experience crafting responses to RFI/RFP
• Strong Linux knowledge and distributed systems
• Proven ability to map technology to business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of Queensland customers' needs and translate into tailored technology recommendations.
• Connect storage and data platform solutions to measurable business outcomes with partners.
• Collaborate with account managers and partners to design a seamless customer experience and drive revenue.
• Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations; present architecture and product demos.
• Capture requirements and respond to RFI/RFP; promote roadmap alignment with customers and partners.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Enterprise storage

RFP/RFI responses

Multi-tiered client/server computing

Linux knowledge

Storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS,

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, or related field

Tools

VMware

Kubernetes

Job description

Role overview

A pre-sales systems engineering role supporting enterprise customers across Queensland, Australia for a data platform and storage portfolio serving hyperscalers, AI labs, and the broader technology ecosystem. The position blends deep technical expertise in storage, distributed systems, and cloud with consultative selling, helping customers map technology solutions to measurable business outcomes while partnering with account managers, specialists, and channel partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of Queensland customers' businesses, priorities, and decision-making drivers, and translate that insight into tailored technology recommendations.
• Connect solutions from the broader storage and data platform ecosystem to measurable customer business outcomes in collaboration with alliance partners.
• Partner closely with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to design a seamless customer experience and strategy that drives revenue growth and net new business.
• Take ownership of technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations, and deliver compelling product and architecture presentations to secure the technical win.
• Capture requirements and translate customer business needs into innovative solutions, and author responses to RFI and RFP documents.
• Identify opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation, and promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges with partners and customers.
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce collateral such as whitepapers and web presentations, and stay current on competitive positioning and market trends.

Requirements

• Pre-sales experience covering Queensland enterprise customers is required.
• 5+ years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications, with supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred.
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions.
• Prior experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients, with significant involvement in RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses.
• Strong knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
• Working knowledge of Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments, plus familiarity with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystems, shared memory, cache, and windowing architectures.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or another technical field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of VMware and local area networking.
• Familiarity with modern web architecture including LAMP stack, scale-out versus scale-up approaches, the AWS well-architected framework, and microservices.
• Exposure to storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases like SQL and Oracle.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote position based in Queensland, Australia, with regular travel to meet customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.