THE ROLE

Are you ready to architect the data foundation for some of the world’s most influential organisations? As a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer for Everpure in the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia, you won’t just be selling storage; you’ll be enabling the digital transformation of global giants.

In a region where data scale is measured in exabytes and "downtime" is not in the vocabulary, your mission is to show our clients how to break free from the "legacy tax" of storage and drive them in to the future. You will be the technical mastermind bridging the gap between traditional infrastructure and a cloud-native future, leveraging the Everpure Platform and Portworx to deliver the agility of the public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises systems.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
• Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Everpure portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
• Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
• Passionately bring to light the advantages of an Everpure solution
• Refine sales strategy and tactics, taking command of technical responsibilities
• Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
• Take control of evaluations,  benchmarks and system configurations
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigour to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
• Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
• Author responses to RFI & RFPs
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. Whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
• Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning
• Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organisation
• Lead by example living the Pure Values:  Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first  

WHAT YOU BRING 

• Creativity, empathy, an open mind, curiosity and a desire for continuous learning
• Pre-sales experience is required
• 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
• Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
• Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP a plus
• Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
• Familiarity with containers, k8s and Microservices architectures a plus
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
• Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
• BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
• Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, Microservices architecture)
• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
• We are primarily an in-office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work remotely in compliance with Everpure's policies.Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable

#LI-REMOTE

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE…

As a Technical Design Architect (Active Cluster & Cloud) (TDA-ACC), you will utilize your strong technical competencies in the field of replication, clustering, cloud offerings as well as data migrations, to provide the highest level of implementation capability and technical consultation to both customers and Pure sales teams to support sales goals. You will work on cross-functional teams including Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development Managers, Services and engineering to scope and help sell Professional Services solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous solutions to customers/partners. You will become intimately acquainted with the customer’s/partner’s business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history, enabling you to present targeted solutions to our customer base. You will build replication, clustering and migration solutions for our customers and will be expected to be a member of the hands-on team delivering these services across EMEA. The role covers pre-sales and delivery functions, and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates.You will possess a thorough understanding of IT architecture, designing solutions, networking and implementation of these solutions and must have significant experience across different replication technologies, clustering, cloud and data migration solutions. You will also be experienced in delivering large scale and complex projects utilising all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate.

THE ROLE...

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

• To understand prospect’s technical needs related to a specific market or specific product (i.e. block, virtualized, 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…

• 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.

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Western Door Federal is part of the Seneca Nation Group (SNG) portfolio of companies. SNG is the federal government contracting business wholly owned by the Seneca Nation. SNG meets mission-critical needs of federal civilian, defense, and intelligence community customers across a variety of domains. The SNG portfolio receives shared services support from its parent company Seneca Holdings and is comprised of multiple companies that participate in the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. To learn more visit www.senecanationgroup.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

The Seneca Nation Group companies offer competitive compensation and a strong benefits package including comprehensive medical and dental care, matching 401K, paid time off, flexible spending accounts, disability coverage, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for you and your family. We pride ourselves on our collaborative work environment and culture which embraces our mission of providing financial and non-financial benefits back to the members of the Seneca Nation.

Western Door Federal is seeking a Systems Administrator - Azure Cloud in support of our State Department customer, located in Saudi Arabia. In this role, you would be part of a 9-person team that provides onsite support to users and customers. The objective of this position is to provide system admin support services and functions, particularly in a Microsoft Azure cloud environment and you will serve as a Microsoft SME.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Co-Author and execute an overall Microsoft Office 365 and Azure cloud strategy
• Configure, manage, troubleshoot, and optimize device management tools, establishing policies and procedures for device management, including provisioning, de-provisioning, remote support, diagnosis, and troubleshooting.
• Ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems are monitored to optimize reliability and uptime and updated accordingly.
• Develop and review IT processes and procedures, maintenance guidelines and documentation
• Work with Engineering team to define and execute mission technical strategy, and technical analysis and design; support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out solutions.
• Proficiency with Windows 10/11 and Windows Server
• Tier 2 for helpdesk support related to computer provisioning, installation and maintenance of hardware and software.

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of related experience in working with Microsoft based solutions.
• Experience in working with Endpoint Management related services such as Azure AD, Endpoint Manager, Active Directory, Office365, GPO Management, Windows Desktop/Server Operating Systems, and PowerShell
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills are a plus
• Must have experience in taking leadership on major changes
• Certifications relevant within the area of responsibility for the position are a plus.
• Excellent communications skills
• Active Secret Clearance
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must have a valid US Passport
• Must obtain medical clearances from the Department of State's Medical Bureau 

Job Description: 

Join our dynamic team as a Channel Manager, where you'll play a pivotal role in cultivating and expanding our network of resellers, distributors, and key customers within the vibrant Saudi Arabian market. As a Channel Manager, you will spearhead the development of strategic relationships with VARs, distributors, and large-scale clients, while also maintaining a keen focus on end-user satisfaction.

Job Requirements: 

• Extensive experience in the Channel Field
• Significant expertise working within the Saudi Market
• 10  years of experience in sales from software organization 
• As a senior-level role, the channel manager would be expected to demonstrate strong leadership skills. This includes the ability to set strategic goals, provide direction to the inside Channel team, and effectively communicate and collaborate with other stakeholders.
• As a senior-level role, the channel manager would be expected to have a deep understanding of the channels they are responsible for managing. This includes knowledge of the market, competitors, and trends in the channel, as well as the ability to develop and execute channel strategies.
• Executive Relationship management: Building and maintaining strong relationships at the executive level is essential to succeed in this role. The senior channel manager should have the ability to effectively negotiate and manage partnerships, resolve conflicts, and ensure the overall satisfaction of partners.
• Proven track record of successful selling in the enterprise accounts 
• Must have excellent communication skills - written and spoken 
• Ability to travel throughout the territory 
• Fluent in English and Arabic
• Bachelor degree and/or equivalent years of experience 

Job Functions: 

• Achieving revenue targets and goals for the territory 
• Developing and executing territory plan with the focus on channel partners and large customers 
• Recruiting, training and enabling channel partners (VARs and distributors) with the focus on SMB run rate business 
• Working closely with account managers and channel partners on closing large enterprise deals 
• Track record of accomplishment selling in the enterprise, client-server market 
• Proven relationships in top tier enterprise accounts and ability to open new 
• Strong knowledge of consultative sales that gets results