VAST Federal is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our growing civilian team!

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This is a great opportunity to be part of the fastest-growing infrastructure company in history. In just a few short years, we’ve shaken up the industry by challenging traditional architecture models and introduced a revolutionary set of data storage and analytics possibilities through our Universal Data platform.

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Our success has been built through incredible leadership and motivated employees who want to leverage their skills & experiences to make a real impact. This is an opportunity to be a key player at a pivotal time in our company’s growth.

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Come join the disruption, make your mark, and be a part of the amazing Public Sector team introducing the new era of data platform!

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Description

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• Assisting customers (which include Government Civilian Agencies) with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations.
• Work closely with VAST Product Management and R&D in helping to define product requirements and usability, including the creation of product specification documents.
• Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and takes ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.
• Demonstrate technical leadership and subject matter expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the AI/Analytics, DAS, NAS, S3, Parallel Filesystem, and SAN product spaces.
• Creation of current/future state documents of customer environments based on design workshop sessions to map a future with VAST for customers.
• Creation of architecture “blueprints” for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to the customer community.
• Creation of site survey documents, test plans, and installation plans.
• Help with the development of a dispersed group of system and field engineers.
• Assist with the recruiting and hiring and development of the Sales and Sales Engineering team.

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Requirements

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• 5+ years of experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.
• Positive energy, optimism and vision.
• Must be a team player: share knowledge, learn from others.
• Ability to perform in an unstructured environment.
• Understanding of classic unstructured data applications and next-generation analytics and web frameworks.
• Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers and trainees.
• Knowledge of virtualization, high-performance networking and enterprise security.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• US Citizenship required