VAST Data

Senior Systems Engineer

VAST Data$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in enterprise storage sales support to large IT organizations
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Knowledge of virtualization, high-performance networking, and enterprise security
  • Ability to thrive in unstructured environments
  • Familiarity with unstructured data applications and next-gen analytics frameworks
  • Experience in technical presentations and training delivery

Responsibilities

  • Assist customers with evaluations, benchmarks, configurations, and installations
  • Collaborate with R&D to define product requirements and usability
  • Contribute to the creation of sales strategies and own technical responsibilities
  • Demonstrate leadership in storage technologies and competitive offerings
  • Create architecture 'blueprints' for sales solutions
  • Support the development of system and field engineering teams
  • Advise on building and managing a customer support organization

Benefits

  • Opportunity for collaboration with R&D and input into product development
  • Scope to influence sales strategies and tactics
  • Chance to shape a growing support organization
  • Engagement in technical leadership and expertise development
  • Environment encouraging initiative and creativity
Full Job Description
Description

THE ROLE:

  • Assist customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations.
  • Work closely with VAST R&D Engineering in helping to define product requirements and usability, including the creation of product specification documents.
  • Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and takes 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.
  • Creation of architecture "blueprints" for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to the customer community.
  • Help with the development of 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

About VAST Data

VAST Data is a data storage company that provides an all-flash storage platform for big data and artificial intelligence workloads. The platform enables businesses to store and analyze large amounts of data in real-time, and provides high performance and scalability. VAST Data was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.
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Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2016

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