As a Consulting Field Solution Architect you are part evangelist, part systems engineer, and part developer promoting Pure in the technical community. You love sharing your knowledge with the larger community through blog posts, webinars and presentations. You enjoy sensing trends in the market and flexing your visionary skills by identifying promising new opportunities, applications, and workflows for the Pure platform. As an industry expert you enjoy consulting and advising the field and customers on architecting, managing, and scaling their systems as well as helping with competitive analysis, design and implementation of successful POC's. You also enjoy building prototypes to prove out potential use cases in your area of expertise.
You have deep technical experience working with technologies related to databases, software development, performance tuning, virtualization and maybe even containerization . You must be familiar with the ecosystem of software vendors in the space, and will leverage this knowledge to help influence where Pure should invest from a partnership and product perspective. You also have the ability and desire to jump in and learn new emerging technologies and applications in this ever changing ecosystem, always looking for ways to enable the company's digital transformations through Pure's Data Storage and Portworx .
This position can be based in any major US city.
What You Bring To The Team
Proficient in the following: File Protocols, SMB, NFS, Object, TCP/IP Networking, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Enterprise Datacenter Solution and Design
Proven experience diagnosing performance issues and tuning virtualized environments.
An outside the box thinker who can think innovatively.
Deep understanding of Infrastructure, Cloud and Virtualization
Experience supporting or designing data architecture for Enterprise Companies.
The ability to quickly dig in to learn and adapt to new technologies
Outstanding content creation, public speaking and presentation skills.
Strong passion for learning and teaching others.
Willingness to promote a culture of collaboration by partnering with solution stakeholders across the organization.
A strong desire to mentor and coach team members throughout the organization.
Motivated and self-starting
Strong problem solving skills
Must be able to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with management, peers, coworkers as well as customers, partners and key industry stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics or relevant experience
10+ years' experience in IT or cloud Infrastructure with special emphasis in areas of Compute, Storage, Networking, Cloud, Business Continuity, and Performance
Expert in Network Attached Storage Architecture, Design and Solutioning
Ability to create and present technical training for the field on targeted solutions
Ability to work cooperatively with sales and alliance teams in delivering compelling messaging to engineers, data professionals and/or architects within strategic accounts
Ability to think creatively and come up with proactive ideas that will increase sales around target solutions
The annual base salary range is: $182,000 – $291,000.
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.
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 purebenefits.com for more information.
There is no application deadline and we accept applications on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.
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