Title:  Consulting Solutions Engineer

Job Summary

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will primarily provide pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions. You will utilise your technical expertise and our cutting-edge data storage portfolio to address customers' technical needs and deliver successful business results. You will be assigned to a district team and Client Executive, focusing on expanding our presence within existing and new clients together with business partners.

Essential functions:

• Use in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations
• Assists the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and may prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions
• May create detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products/applications/solutions
• May build a "mini-lab" based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client
• Provide consultation to prospective users and/or product capability assessment and validation
• Design tailored storage technology solutions to address unique customer challenges
• Convey the advantage of NetApp storage solutions through presentations, demonstrations, and discussions
• Design an architecting on-premise or hybrid storage systems (knowledge of NAS, SAN and Object Storage is required)
• Develop storage infrastructure and data management solutions for enterpriser applications, also in the context of Cloud Services
• Provide deep insights into Storage and Data Management vendor eco system, and having had prior experience on backup solutions
• Create ROI/TCO overview and competitive advantages of solution offerings
• Collaborate with client executives and partner sales to create strategies for developing customer opportunities related to storage solutions
• Advise on engagement and utilization of broader range of technical resources 
• Offer and apply technical expertise on NetApp's storage product and solution

Job Requirements

• At least 10 Years of experience and expertise in technical specifications on storage product and services
• Prior experience of working in capacity of Sales Engineering, Solutions Architect, Solutions Engineering on storage technologies
• Operate as Subject-Matter-Expert (SME) and has the ability to influence Sales team, driving initiatives and act as a Decision-maker on Projects
• Experience or working knowledge with the product of EMC, HDS, HPE, IBM, VMware or Pure Storage
• Good knowledge of major OS of the market (including AIX)
• Experience in technical management of major accounts
• A good knowledge of NetApp products would be an advantage
• A good knowledge of FSI segment is recommended.
• Prior knowledge in Cloud, Storage, AI/ML, Database, Microservice, Enterprise
• Application or DevOps is advantageous
• Interested and/or possess with the relevant knowledge with Docker/Container & Kubernetes (K8S) platform
• Interested and/or possess with the relevant knowledge for hybrid multi-cloud technologies, AI Platform
• Fluent English language - mandatory