Storage Client Solutions Engineer

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Support senior engineers in client discovery, requirement analysis, and early technical qualification
• Participate in conversations with clients on emerging technologies and challenging solution opportunities, providing research, demos, or technical collateral
• Conduct lab validation, PoC setups, solution testing, and basic architectural documentation
• Contribute to the creation of repeatable solution assets, including configuration guides, validation briefs, and internal knowledge articles based on the client solutions
• Aid in the integration of successful client solutions into broader solutions roadmaps and GTM assets
• Assist with operational tasks for partner programs, enablement sessions, ecosystem onboarding, and curated demos
• Analyze solution adoption, customer/partner activity, and technical enablement metrics

Preferred Education

Master's Degree Required

Technical and Professional Expertise

• Enterprise storage or SDS fundamentals (IBM Storage, Dell, NetApp, Pure, Ceph, etc.)
• Basics of block, file, object, RAID, snapshots, replication, and performance concepts
• Virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper V, KVM)
• Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker fundamentals)
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Exposure to data pipelines, AI/ML frameworks, or modern analytics platforms (plus)

What Makes You a Great Fit

• A strong desire to learn new technologies deeply and continuously
• Curiosity and willingness to ask questions, experiment, and solve challenging problems
• Collaboration, transparency, and a "help first" mindset with teammates and partners
• Ownership mentality: you follow through, deliver, and care about impact
• A bias for action and resilience—comfortable learning through iteration and failure
• Clear communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts simply

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Discipline in program managing oneself and others to deliver on objectives
• Openness, transparency, and honesty with oneself and others as it pertains to intentions, objectives, plans, and execution
• A habit of facing and overcoming difficult technical and business challenges, or failing while putting forth one’s best effort, leaning, and forging on
• An innate desire to deeply learn new technologies and customer workloads with a strong understanding of the problems being solved and the business value derived
• A bias for action and results, viewing failure as necessary and educational
• A habit of exercising the principle of charity, interpreting the words and actions of others in the best, strongest, and most rational way possible