Pure Storage

Consulting Field Solutions Architect, Virtualization

Pure Storage

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois

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Salary

💰 $168,000 - $299,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxNFSOpenShiftPythonTerraformVMware

About the role

  • Virtualization Solutions Development: Participate in the definition and execution of the solutions roadmap by executing on the design, development, validation and delivery of Virtualization Solutions built and integrated with a variety of Alliance products and Pure’s entire product suite.
  • Develop Technical Collateral: Develop technical documentation, including reference architectures, best practices, white papers, and solution briefs, that effectively communicate the value of Pure Storage solutions for Virtualization workloads to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Lab Validation and Demonstration: Build, validate, and document solutions using Pure Storage technologies in a lab environment.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Present solutions to customers, partners, and internal teams, translating technical details into business value and actionable insights.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product management, field architects, professional services and marketing teams to align solutions with go-to-market strategies and customer objectives.
  • Technical Marketing Support: Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and refine messaging, presentations, and technical content that highlights the business value and differentiated value of Pure Storage solutions for specific target audiences such as researchers, data scientists, systems engineers and infrastructure teams.
  • Professional Documentation: Plan, outline, and publish professional technical documents on schedule, ensuring accuracy and clarity.
  • Customer-Focused Solutions: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand real-world customer challenges and deliver practical, impactful solutions.
  • Collaborative Teamwork: Work collaboratively within a team and cross-functionally within the company to achieve common goals and drive innovation.
  • Effective Communication: Communicate in a clear and concise professional manner, tailored to the appropriate audience; including both verbal and written communications.
  • Manage Multiple Priorities: Manage multiple priorities and tasks within a dynamic work environment, ensuring timely and effective delivery of projects.

Requirements

  • Infrastructure and Platform Expertise: In-depth, holistic knowledge of Virtualization Platforms including but not limited to, VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, Azure Local, OpenShift, Kubernetes, KVM, etc. Deep understanding of storage and networking, performance tuning, Kubernetes, Scripting languages, Operating Systems.
  • Storage Proficiency: An understanding of block, file, and object storage protocols (e.g., FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3) and their application in high performance environments.
  • Platform Knowledge: Expertise in hybrid cloud platforms, including public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and Hyperscaler Virtualization Technologies
  • Solution Architecture: Ability to design, document, and validate comprehensive solutions that address technical and business needs from the complete software stack through the infrastructure environment.
  • Technical Marketing Skills: Ability to collaborate with marketing teams to create impactful content, presentations, and messaging that highlights technical capabilities and customer value for Pure’s target audience of buyers, influencers and decision makers.
  • Performance Optimization: In Depth knowledge of the I/O protocols, pathways and tuning practices to derive the greatest performance in both real world environments and across standardized performance benchmarking tools.
  • Understanding of large scale environments: Real world applications and how to optimize solutions architectures to extract efficiency and performance from the entire stack.
  • Systems Engineering Knowledge: Expertise in Linux, Window, PowerShell Bash/Python scripting, IP networking, Ansible, Terraform and experience with enterprise automation tools and orchestration platforms.
  • Diagnostic Skills: Strong troubleshooting capabilities for performance issues.
  • Technical Curiosity: Technical curiosity / continuous-learning / always-be-developing mindset. Better candidates will always be exploring new tech trends/platforms and responding to changes in the industry.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in Virtualization architecture, solutions, enterprise design and related technologies.
  • Proven ability to execute on strategies and deliver high-quality solutions aligned with organizational goals.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering practical and impactful solutions.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present to both technical and executive audiences.
  • Demonstrated adaptability to learn new technologies and respond to evolving organizational needs.
  • Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced setting with minimal supervision.