Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Detroit/Grand Rapids
$141,400–$212,100 year
Remote · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Job Summary
Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer sought to understand customer business needs and translate them into Everpure storage solutions. Responsibilities include delivering technical product and architecture presentations, leading evaluations and configurations, collaborating with sales and channel partners, capturing requirements, and driving interoperability testing. The role requires deep storage expertise across DAS/NAS/SAN, Linux/NFS, virtualization, cloud and on-prem architectures, familiarity with VMware and modern cloud/container ecosystems, and strong communication skills to articulate technical value and influence customer outcomes. The role emphasizes technical leadership, customer-first mindset, and cross-functional collaboration to unlock revenue and growth in enterprise storage solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Pre-sales experience is required
- 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required
- Experience supporting the 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
- Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
- Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
- Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
- Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
- Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
- Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
- Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
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