Pure Storage

Senior Technical Design Architect

Pure Storage

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇯🇵 Japan

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityPerlPMPPython

About the role

  • Lead technical consultation and implementation to support sales goals across Japan.
  • Work cross-functionally with Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development, Services and engineering to scope and sell Professional Services solutions.
  • Become acquainted with customers' business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history.
  • Perform pre-sales and delivery functions as needed.
  • Design IT architecture solutions involving replication, clustering, cloud offerings and data migrations.
  • Deliver large scale and complex projects and develop scripting for automation.
  • Participate in customer evaluations and proof of concepts on Pure systems.
  • Advise sales teams on engineering developments and strategies for replication, clustering and data migrations.
  • Evaluate partner proposals for migration services.
  • Prepare and deliver technical and architecture solutions and contribute to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs.
  • Travel to customer domestic sites and global sites as necessary.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of overall technical experience across Japan
  • 5-8 years as a SME / solutions architect including 2+ years of team leading position
  • 3+ years of customer facing experience with the technical matters
  • Enterprise IT infrastructure operations or infrastructure environment automation/efficiency operations.
  • Well Understanding of Enterprise Storage protocols.
  • Understanding and practical experience with major cloud solutions such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience with data center migration and platform integration.
  • Understanding of fundamental networking concepts, virtualization solutions, and operating systems.
  • Experience with DR, cybersecurity, and container technologies.
  • Experience with scripting (e.g., Perl, PowerShell, Python) and operational implementation using REST API.
  • Experience with monitoring design using monitoring tools, IAM experience, and authentication management experience with AD.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Able to clearly communicate complex technical information to a non-technical audience.
  • Capable of delivering information at the level of detail and in the order expected by the audience, while understanding the essence of their intent.
  • Ability to appropriately grasp the customer’s expectations and information through active listening.
  • Strong desire for learning new technologies and willingness to deploy/share them with others.
  • Creative approach to problem-solving and strong analytical capabilities.
  • Ability to manage external and internal stakeholders and report on project progress.
  • Possession of certifications such as ITIL, PMP, vendor-specific storage certifications, SNIA certification programs, and CompTIA Storage+.
  • Autonomous and proactive mindset, Logical and rational thinking process.
  • Strong team player with a professional demeanor.
  • Proactive in offering opinions and clarifying ambiguities in meetings. No silent in meetings.
  • Project management and multitasking skills.
  • Business-level English proficiency (ability to read and write, with a strong desire for improvement).
  • A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering; or equivalent work experience; a Graduate Degree is preferred.