VAST Data

Senior Systems Engineer

VAST Data • $120K — $145K *
Minneapolis, MN 55407In-Person
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in enterprise storage sales to large IT organizations
  • Strong understanding of unstructured data applications and next-gen analytics
  • Experience with virtualization, high-performance networking, and enterprise security
  • Skilled in preparing and delivering technical presentations
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrates positive energy and vision
  • Adaptable to unstructured environments

Responsibilities

  • Assist customers with evaluations and system installations
  • Collaborate with R&D to define product usability and requirements
  • Participate in sales strategy creation and own technical responsibilities
  • Demonstrate expertise in storage products and architectures
  • Create architectural blueprints for sales delivery
  • Develop and mentor a dispersed group of engineers
  • Consult on building and managing a Support organization

Benefits

  • Opportunity for collaboration with R&D Engineering
  • Involvement in shaping sales strategy
  • Technical leadership role in product offerings
  • Mentorship and development of engineering teams
  • Influence in building customer support structures
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.
Learn more about VAST Data
Size
50 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
2016
* Ladders Estimates

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