VAST Data
Senior Systems Engineer - Higher Ed & SLED - PacNW
California · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years supporting sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.
About the job
Supports sales of enterprise storage to Higher Education and SLED customers in the Pacific Northwest through technical evaluations, solution design, customer guidance, and engineering collaboration.
What you'll do
- Assist customers with evaluations, benchmarks, system configurations, and installations; own technical responsibilities within customer accounts.
- Work with R&D to define product requirements and usability, and create product specifications and repeatable solution architecture blueprints.
- Contribute to sales strategy and help develop distributed engineering teams and support organizations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience supporting sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.
- Understanding of classic 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.
Tools
DAS, NAS, SAN
AI focus
The company’s platform supports AI data preparation, training, and inference; the role focuses on storage infrastructure and customer solutions.
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