Principal Field Solutions Architect - Pure Storage

What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

• For ten straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 

• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally

• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions

• And, our 5,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go

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.

As a Principal 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 companys 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

• 12+ 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