Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Wisconsin

Everpure•Remote, Wisconsin, WI

7h•$141,400 - $212,100•Remote

About The Position

Everpure is seeking a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to provide technical expertise throughout the sales process and tailor the company’s data storage and flash technology solutions to customer needs. The role partners with sales teams to understand customer challenges, demonstrate the value of Everpure products and services, and connect technology solutions to measurable business outcomes. It supports customers and prospective accounts in Wisconsin and is designated remote in the posting. The engineer collaborates with account managers, specialists, channel partners, product teams, and technical marketing to develop customer strategies, drive revenue and new business, support alliance objectives, and position Everpure’s solutions against competitors. The role leads technical evaluations and presentations, translates business requirements into solutions, and contributes to interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation. The position requires pre-sales experience and at least five years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications. The successful candidate has expertise in enterprise storage architectures and related technologies, along with experience explaining technical platforms and solutions to customers. The annual base salary range is $141,400–$212,100 USD; the role may also be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.

Requirements

Pre-sales experience is required.
At least 5 years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications.
Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions.
Experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
Ability to contribute significant portions of, or lead, responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Strong knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures, including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
Experience installing and configuring distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystem architectures, shared-memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
Strong knowledge of digital transformation to cloud-native architecture, on-premises and public-cloud environments, provisioning automation, and containers.
Knowledge of VMware, local area networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
Curiosity about technology and enthusiasm for explaining and demonstrating new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
Familiarity with modern web architecture, including the LAMP stack, scale-out versus scale-up architectures, the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and microservices architecture.
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases including SQL and Oracle.

Responsibilities

Develop a thorough understanding of customers’ businesses and decision-making motivations.
Connect technology solutions, including Everpure’s portfolio and ecosystem offerings, to measurable customer business outcomes.
Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to develop customer strategies and experiences that drive revenue growth and new business.
Provide technical leadership and domain expertise in storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competing DAS, NAS, and SAN offerings.
Lead customer evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations.
Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers and prospective accounts to secure technical wins.
Capture requirements and translate customers’ business needs into solutions that support their growth and capacity needs.
Identify and encourage opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation.
Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges.
Work with product and technical marketing to create materials, such as whitepapers and web presentations, that support alliance plans and objectives.
Monitor competitors and ensure solution-positioning materials reflect current differentiators.
Track market trends and the competitive landscape, and promote thought leadership within the organization.
Lead by example and uphold Everpure’s values of Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, and Customer-first.