Pure Storage

Senior Solutions Architect, MSP

Pure Storage • $141K — $212K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in pre-sales, solutions architecture or technical leadership with proven success in partner-led business.
  • Direct experience with Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their operational frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of consumption economics, total cost of ownership (TCO), and profit margins.
  • Experience in driving and closing complex deals within competitive settings.
  • Deep knowledge of modern data platform architecture and storage models.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure dynamics, including cyber resilience and virtualization.
  • Exceptional communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy for MSP opportunities from conception to closure.
  • Shape the platform for managed service offerings early in the process.
  • Drive strategic engagements with existing and new MSP accounts in your region.
  • Collaborate with MSP sales teams to enhance their client interactions.
  • Design comprehensive service architecture including multi-tenancy and automation.
  • Influence economic models for managed services, focusing on unit economics and margins.
  • Gather and relay critical MSP requirements to inform product development.

Benefits

  • Innovative culture that encourages critical thinking and trailblazing initiatives.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth within a recognized top workplace.
  • Supportive team environment that prioritizes collaboration and shared success.
  • Flexible time off and wellness resources to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Full Job Description
THE ROLE:

Everpure is building the Enterprise Data Cloud - data unified, governed and understood as one intelligent system, and the foundation enterprises build AI on. Managed service providers are one of the most direct routes to that outcome at scale: they own the customer relationship, they operate the platform, and every workload they land compounds. Data Intelligence, cyber resilience, Portworx and Evergreen//One turns Everpure from a component in an MSP's stack into the substrate their service is built on.

We are rebooting our approach. Everpure is standing up a global practice dedicated to MSPs and building a new MSP program behind it. The Senior Solutions Architect, MSP is the technical front line of that practice; the person in the room with the MSP's architects and their end customers, winning the deals that prove the model works.

This is a field-facing, deal-led role. You will carry technical responsibility for MSP opportunities end to end, from early shaping through to close, and you will do it across the full Everpure platform. Managed service deals are won on unit economics as much as architecture, so you will be as fluent in cost per tenant as you are in a whiteboard session.

The practice is being built around you, and what you learn in live deals is what shapes it. But your primary measure is pipeline and bookings won with MSP partners.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Own technical leadership of MSP opportunities end to end: discovery, solution design, sizing, competitive positioning, POCs and technical close.
  • Engage early to shape the platform the managed service will be built on.
  • Drive strategic deals in existing MSP accounts, and open whitespace MSPs in your region.
  • Support the MSP's own sales cycles with their end customers, co-selling live rather than briefing from the sidelines.
Design the service, not just the solution
  • Define the end-to-end architecture including multi-tenancy, automation, provisioning, operational model and integration into the MSP's existing service stack.
  • Model and influence the commercial construct: managed service unit economics, cost per tenant, TB and workload, Evergreen//One and consumption models, and the margin story that makes Everpure the right substrate.
  • Design for the way MSPs actually operate; API-led, automated, billable. MSPs do not buy what they cannot automate.
Win the competitive battles
  • Displace the competitors in MSP environments.
  • Position and win across the full platform, FlashArray, FlashBlade, Portworx and Everpure Data Intelligence, not a single product line.
  • Build and use the competitive evidence base: battle cards, teardowns, reference wins and proof points that stand up in the MSP's own sales conversation.
Build technical credibility with the partner
  • Establish yourself as the trusted technical voice with MSP architects, practice leads and CTOs.
  • Enable MSP technical teams to design and sell autonomously, so every deal you support builds capability for the ten you are not in.
  • Grow a population of partner-side technical champions who can carry Everpure without you in the room.
Feed the practice and the program
  • Bring real MSP requirements back into the new global MSP program and Product Management - multi-tenancy, licensing, billing integration, API and automation gaps.
  • Contribute reusable IP from live engagements: reference architectures, sizing and scaling guides, service blueprints.
Work across Everpure
  • Escalate and orchestrate specialist support cleanly rather than carrying every technical ask personally.
  • Represent Everpure at partner-facing events, roadshows, webinars and technical workshops, and create technical content that reaches the wider MSP community.
WHAT YOU BRING:
  • 5+ years in pre-sales, solutions architecture or technical leadership, with a demonstrable record of winning partner-led business.
  • Direct experience with MSPs, and a real understanding of how they build, price, operate and sell a managed service.
  • Commercial fluency. Comfortable discussing consumption economics, TCO and margin with an MSP's finance and practice leadership.
  • Track record of driving and closing technically complex deals in a competitive environment.
  • Credible at depth across modern data platform architecture: block, file and object, unstructured data at scale, hybrid and cloud data services, Kubernetes and storage-as-a-service models.
  • Strong working knowledge of compute, database, networking and virtualization, plus emerging areas including AI/ML data pipelines and data governance and classification.
  • Fluent in cyber resilience, virtualization migration dynamics and the competitive landscape.
  • Practical command of multi-tenancy, automation and API-driven infrastructure.
  • Product experience across technology vendors within the relevant region.
  • Outstanding written, diagrammatic and verbal communication, with the ability to reduce complex ideas to simple terms for technical and non-technical audiences alike.
  • Executive presence to move between an MSP CTO conversation and a whiteboard architecture session.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across the broader Everpure organization and to influence without authority.
  • Entrepreneurial and ambitious. This is a practice being built, not one being inherited.
  • Combines a big-thinking strategic perspective with a detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
  • Thrives in ambiguity and pace, prioritizes ruthlessly, and drives for results with a strong sense of accountability.

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Salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location. For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations.

This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.

There is no application deadline and we accept applications on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.

The annual base salary range is:

$141,400-$212,100 USD

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:
  • Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge, and aspire to be trailblazers.
  • Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been named Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology™, Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™, and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
  • Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events. Check out http://benefits.everpuredata.com/ for more information.

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage is a data storage company that provides all-flash storage solutions. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. Pure Storage's products are designed to help businesses manage and store large amounts of data. The company has over 7,000 customers and operates in over 40 countries. Pure Storage went public in 2015 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PSTG.
Learn more about Pure Storage
Size
4,300 employees
Market Cap
$8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$282 million
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+24.2%
Revenue
$1.6 billion
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