Presales System Engineer - France

At Infinidat, we help enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. We are a leading provider of enterprise-class storage solutions. The company’s software-focused architecture delivers sub-millisecond latency, full availability, and scalability with a significantly lower total cost of ownership than competing storage technologies.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly technical Pre-Sales Engineer. In this role, you will be a technical expert in a team selling storage and data-protection solutions to Enterprise Accounts and Cloud Service Providers. We offer you a rare opportunity to become a part of one of the world's leading teams and drive the success of our company.

• Support the field team in EMEA by advising and actively assisting with their sales opportunities.
• Develop & deliver technical updates and guidance to the field.
• Develop & deliver product, solution, and architecture presentations at the C-level.
• Act as a subject matter expert on the Infinidat solution portfolio and provide ongoing guidance and support for Field inquiries.
• Act as a liaison between field sales teams and corporate functions such as product management, product support, etc.
• Provide support for major RFP/RFI answering efforts.
• Manage and support the technical aspects of customer and partner EBC visits.
• Develop & deliver partner enablement sessions and provide ongoing support for major Infinidat partners

Required Skills & Experience:

Candidates must have very strong technical communication skills (both verbal and written), a positive attitude and strong team spirit as well as:

• At least 5 years of experience in supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking or systems solutions to a combination of large enterprise accounts and data centers.
• BSc in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Deep storage and virtualization technical skills and knowledge of private and public cloud ecosystems
• Deep technical knowledge and operational experience of application and operating system environments and their integration within the enterprise storage industry.
• The ability to analyze and present an in-depth understanding of clients' technical and business priorities, and how they relate to the INFINIDAT solution set
• Thorough understanding of the architecture, design and implementations of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Demonstrable experience in contributing significant portions and/or leading responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs.
• Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
• This is a self-employed contractor position

Preferred Technical Qualifications:

Expertise in at least two of the following categories is mandatory:

• Storage (iSCSI, NFS, FCP, SMB, NVMe, Object).
• Hypervisors (ESX, Hyper-V, XenServer, KVM).
• Performance benchmarks.
• Database applications (SQL, Oracle, SAP).
• Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure public cloud.
• Data Protection and Business Continuity solutions (Commvault, Veeam, etc).
• Service Provider private and public cloud environments, virtualization and cloud management (Kubernetes, OpenStack, vCloud Director, etc.).

About Infinidat

Infinidat’s enterprise storage portfolio provides global enterprises and service providers with best-in-class solutions for primary storage, next-generation data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber resilience. Infinidat’s InfuzeOS on all our platforms is the only single, software-defined storage architecture in the industry that spans all platforms. We recently showcased the future of enterprise storage, cyber security, and hybrid multi-cloud with our new and exciting G4 launch!

Not only has Infinidat won 24 awards in the first half of 2024, but has also been a 6-time winner of the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Award for Primary Storage and we can go on, and on, and on!