Unstructured Data Architect Sales Midwest

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Unstructured Data Architect, Sales (Midwest)

at Pure Storage

Chicago, IL

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

Since our founding in 2009, Pure Storage has empowered innovators to build a better world with data. In less than eight years, Pure reached $1B in sales, faster than nearly every enterprise company in history, and our incredible growth continues to outpace the competition.

Our mission? Give technologists their time back by delivering a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds.

The secret sauce? More than 3,000 team members (and growing!) around the world who join forces to invent the next big thing. And then the next one.

We’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions

, and as we continue to gobble up market share, we’re blazing trails and setting records:

For

seven straight years, Pure has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

(five years in the MQ for Solid-State Arrays, and two in the newly created MQ

for Primary Storage).

Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a 2020 Medallia

Net Promoter Score

, certified by Owen CX,

in the top 1% of B2B companies

If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE…

FlashBlade is the industry’s first cloud-era flash, purpose-built for modern analytics and designed to drive tomorrow’s discoveries, insights and creations. FlashBlade is architected from the ground-up to deliver a powerful data platform that’s fast, big, and simple.

Pure Storage is seeking a pre-sales Data Architect (Sales Engineer) to cover customers in the Midwest/Central region.

What You Will Be Doing

Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and takes ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.

Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts.

Take control of evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations.

Work closely with Engineering, Product Management and Technical Marketing in helping to define product requirements, usability and to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives.

Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces.

Author responses to RFI & RFPs.

Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making.

Passionately bring to light the advantages of a Pure Storage solution.

Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity.

Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation.

Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges.

Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning.

Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization.

What You Bring To The Team

Pre-sales experience is required.

5-10 years minimum experience supporting the sales of applications, enterprise storage, networking or systems solutions to a combination of accounts and data centers.

Experience working in or selling into High Performance Computing (HPC) environments (Genomics, AI, Machine Learning, etc.).

Thorough understanding of the architecture, design and implementations of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions.

Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN).

Familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, NoSQL alternatives).

UNIX OS, NFS file systems and UNIX distributed network environment.

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nstallation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems.

Knowledge of VMWare, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.

Application knowledge is highly desirable.

Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.

BE YOU—CORPORATE CLONES NEED NOT APPLY.

Pure is where you ask big questions, think differently, and make an impact. This is not just a job, but a place where you have a voice and can accelerate your career. We value unique thoughts and celebrate individuality, and with ample opportunity to learn, develop yourself, and expand into different roles, joining Pure is an investment in your career journey.

Through our Pure Equality program, which supports a flourishing field of employee resource groups, we nourish the personal and professional lives of our team members. And our Pure Good Foundation gives back to local and global communities through volunteering and grants.

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.

PURE IS COMMITTED TO EQUALITY.

Research shows that in order to apply for a job women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting about 60%. You don't have to meet all the job requirements. If you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply.

Pure is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other characteristic legally protected by the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are being considered for hire.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at

TA-Ops@purestorage.com

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Pure Storage
Website : http://www.purestorage.com