Senior Systems Engineer, Public Sector – Germany

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of German Public Sector Customers (FED/SLED) and their key decision-making factors.

• Link technology solutions, including the Everpure Storage portfolio and ecosystem offerings, to quantifiable customer business results.

• Collaborate with account managers, specialists, and SI partners to develop customer experience and sales strategies that promote revenue expansion and new business opportunities.

• Advocate for the benefits of Everpure Storage solutions.

• Enhance sales strategy and tactics while assuming technical responsibility.

• Provide technical leadership and domain expertise in storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive NAS, SAN, and Object/S3 solutions.

• Oversee evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations.

• Create and present technical product and architecture presentations to customers and potential accounts.

• Gather requirements and convert customer business needs into innovative solutions.

• Write and contribute to RFP responses for the German Public Sector.

• Identify opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation.

• Foster mutual roadmap discussions and planning exchanges.

• Work with product and technical marketing to generate whitepapers and online presentations.

• Track competition, market trends, and the competitive landscape to enhance solution positioning and thought leadership.

• Embody Everpure values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, and Customer-first.

⛳️ Requirements

• Pre-sales experience with German Public Sector customers is mandatory.

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications.

• Proficient in file protocols such as NFS and SMB.

• ONTAP NFS Administration or NetApp NCDA certifications are preferred.

• Experience in supporting enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software sales to German Public Sector or enterprise accounts.

• Thorough understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing architecture, design, and implementation.

• Familiarity with modern web architecture, including LAMP, scale-out versus scale-up architectures, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and microservices.

• Proven ability to target new prospects and convert them into clients.

• Experience in contributing to or leading RFP responses for the German Public Sector.

• Extensive knowledge of storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, SAN, and Object/S3.

• Competence in Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.

• Experience in installing and configuring distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory, storage subsystems, shared memory, cache, and windowing systems.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native digital transformation, on-premises systems, public cloud, provisioning automation, and containers.

• Knowledge of VMware, LAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.

• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures is advantageous.

• Knowledge of storage-intensive applications and structured databases such as SQL and Oracle is highly desirable.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Proficiency in German at Level C2 is essential.

• Traits such as creativity, empathy, open-mindedness, curiosity, and a commitment to continuous learning are valued.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible time off.

• Wellness resources.

• Company-sponsored team events.

• Support for growth and development.

• Employee Resource Groups.

• Initiatives for inclusive leadership and community engagement.

• Accommodations in the hiring process for candidates with disabilities.