VAST Data
Senior Systems Engineer - Higher Ed and SLED - TOLA
Austin, TX · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years supporting the sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.
About the job
Supports enterprise storage sales by guiding customer evaluations, configurations, and installations, while providing architecture expertise and contributing to product requirements and sales strategy.
What you'll do
- Assist customers with evaluations, benchmarks, system configurations, and installations.
- Work with R&D to define product requirements and usability, including product specifications; create repeatable solution architecture blueprints.
- Contribute to sales strategy, provide technical leadership in customer accounts, and help develop engineering and Support organizations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience supporting sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.
- Understanding of unstructured data applications and next-generation analytics and web frameworks.
- Knowledge of virtualization, high-performance networking, and enterprise security.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to have
- Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers and trainees.
Tools
DAS, NAS, SAN
AI focus
Supports data infrastructure used for AI training and inference; the role focuses on enterprise storage sales and architecture rather than building AI systems.
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