Systems Engineer - Enterprise

VAST Data; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

VAST Data is seeking a knowledgeable System Engineer to enhance our team. This role involves assisting customers with evaluations, benchmarks, and system installations while collaborating with R&D to define product requirements.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in enterprise storage sales support and exceptional communication skills, helping drive technical ownership within customer accounts.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Assist customers with evaluations, benchmarks, and system installations.
• Work with R&D to define product requirements and usability.
• Participate in sales strategy and own technical responsibilities.

Skills

Sales support for enterprise storage

Technical presentation skills

Knowledge of virtualization

Excellent communication skills

Job description

VAST Data is looking for a System Engineer to join our growing team!

VAST Data is a data platform company for the AI era, building 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.

The Role

• Assist customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations.
• Work closely with VAST R&D Engineering 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.
• Create architecture "blueprints" for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to the customer community.
• Help develop 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.