Technical Design Architect

Pure Storage

TDAs work with customers, sales teams, engineering and Pure partners to:

• To understand prospect s technical needs related to a specific market or specific product (i.e. block, virtualised, file solutions, clustering, replication best practice, disaster recovery, business contingency).

• In a post-sales consultative role to support the implementation of the professional services solution that was scoped and subsequently sold.

• To provide technical consultation/education to the sales teams and keep them apprised on new replication offerings and data migrations solutions.

• Participate in customer evaluations and proof of concepts on Pure systems

• Advise and consult on engineering developments and strategies for replication, clustering and data migrations, ensuring these solutions meet and integrate into our clients DR and BCP best practices.

• Plan, conduct and direct projects to support sales efforts and address future customer needs

• Evaluate partner proposals for migration services to ensure they deliver quality and value for money to Pure.

• Deliver replication, clustering and migration solutions to our customers, either as a sole resource or member of a team.

• Develop scripts for both integration of Pure storage into a customer s operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud and data migrations.

WHAT YOU LL BRING TO THIS ROLE

• Flash Array experience / Replication technologies (Active Cluster or similar)
• Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based offerings.
• Data Center Migrations/Consolidations/Toolsets
• Networking concepts and high-level designs
• Cirrus Data Solutions Appliance (or Appliance based solutions for migrating block data)
• Virtualisation Tools - Cisco/Microsoft/VMWare (Cloud solutions)
• Proven experience of scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, Powershell, Visual Basic, Python.
• Networking infrastructure (Nexus / ACI / Broadcom / Brocade)
• Security/Firewalls
• Other technical platform or infrastructure migration tools such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Datadobi, StorageX, Open Replicator.
• Data Center Migration Implementations for block and file.
• Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience.
• Windows, AIX and Linux Operating systems
• Hyper-V and VMWare ESX (vRA / SRM)
• Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and other cloud-based offerings.
• Disaster Recovery, Replication, Backup technologies (Zerto / Veeam / Rubrik / Veritas NBU)
• Preparation and delivery of technical and architecture solution
• Contribute significant portions for data migration solutions to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
• UNIX OS, NFS file systems and UNIX distributed network environment
• Knowledge of Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, any languages are a definite benefit (Arabic)
• Team leadership skills
• BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.

• Experience which demonstrates a significant level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell Pure products and services is required.