Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Utilize your strong consulting and technical competencies in Block, File, and Object data transition to Pure storage solutions, to provide the highest level of transition architecture, and planning capability, and technical consultation to customers, and partners
  
• Work in cross-functional teams including Product and Services Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development Managers, Product Engineering, Services Engineering to scope and help to position Professional Services Solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous product 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
  
• Design and plan the implementation of the services solutions for our customers and will be expected to be a technical lead of the hands-on team delivering these services across the world. The role covers customer facing pre-sales and delivery functions, and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates
  
• Possess a thorough understanding of modern datacenter and hybrid cloud IT architecture, designing solutions, networking and implementation of these solutions. You must have significant experience across enterprise storage platforms, different data migration technologies for SAN, NAS, Object, CAS, know most enterprise class operating systems, and be comfortable with SAN fabrics and NAS networking solutions. You will also be experienced in delivering large scale and complex projects utilizing all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate
  
• Help customers to determine the best way to achieve their business objectives on projects that involve data migrations
  
• Lead the data migration conversations, provide architecture, and solution to address the data migration needs
  
• Translate customer business requirements to migration solution that will support achieving them
  
• Be an expert in Pure migration methodology. Explain how methodology helps to mitigate data migration risks at the customer environment
  
• Conduct detailed technical discovery of a customer environment
  
• Perform customer environment and data analysis, identify areas of focus for the delivery team
  
• Create a comprehensive end-to-end data migration plan that will support achieving customer desired outcomes
  
• Be a Pure storage product expert consulting customers on the best practice implementation techniques.
  
• Advise and consult on Pure solution implementation strategies that will help to address customer needs around areas like active clustering, DR replication, disaster recovery, monitoring and others
  
• Have expertise in performing all data migration tasks, able to lead and coach on them as necessary
  
• Lead a team of migration engineers through a migration execution phase
  
• Be an SME in at least 4 data migration areas (Block data migration, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Object, Compute, Application based migration, Host based migration)
  
• Provide support for the technical issues related to the migration architecture implementation.
  
• Develop scripts for both integration of Pure storage into a customer's operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud and data migrations
  

Requirements

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering; or related field is required
  
• 8 to 10 years of experience
  
• Experience which demonstrates a significant level of expertise in designing and delivering complex data migration solutions across heterogeneous storage platforms
  
• Excellent business focused verbal and written communication skills
  
• Ability to tailor messaging to the specific audience – sales, management, technical etc
  
• Ability to explain complex technical issues in a simple easy to understand way
  
• Be a technical expert around data migration techniques
  
• Storage solutions deployment experience in the enterprise environment
  
• 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)
  
• Virtualization 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, Komprise
  
• Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience
  
• Operational knowledge of Windows, AIX, Unix, HP-US, Solaris, Linux Operating systems
  
• Knowledge of Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi
  
• 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, CIFS/SMB, NFS, S3, OSD, SAN)
  
• Knowledge of Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
  
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills, any additional languages are a definite benefit
  
• Team leadership skills
  

Preferred:

• Specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth in data migration tool sets (specifically the Cirrus Data Appliance) and disciplines
  
• Understanding of enterprise applications like Oracle, SAP, SQL
  
• Experience with deploying storage solutions in containerized and public cloud environments
  
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment.
  
• Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices
  
• Creative approach to problem solving
  
• Travel to the prospective customer's domestic sites and other global sites as necessary
  

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Requirements
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Utilize your strong consulting and technical competencies in Block, File, and Object data transition to Pure storage solutions, to provide the highest level of transition architecture, and planning capability, and technical consultation to customers, and partners
  
• Work in cross-functional teams including Product and Services Sales, Product Marketing, Business Development Managers, Product Engineering, Services Engineering to scope and help to position Professional Services Solutions for homogeneous and heterogeneous product 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
  
• Design and plan the implementation of the services solutions for our customers and will be expected to be a technical lead of the hands-on team delivering these services across the world. The role covers customer facing pre-sales and delivery functions, and you will be comfortable with performing either role as demand dictates
  
• Possess a thorough understanding of modern datacenter and hybrid cloud IT architecture, designing solutions, networking and implementation of these solutions. You must have significant experience across enterprise storage platforms, different data migration technologies for SAN, NAS, Object, CAS, know most enterprise class operating systems, and be comfortable with SAN fabrics and NAS networking solutions. You will also be experienced in delivering large scale and complex projects utilizing all the mentioned offerings and will also be skilled in scripting to enable automation of these processes where appropriate
  
• Help customers to determine the best way to achieve their business objectives on projects that involve data migrations
  
• Lead the data migration conversations, provide architecture, and solution to address the data migration needs
  
• Translate customer business requirements to migration solution that will support achieving them
  
• Be an expert in Pure migration methodology. Explain how methodology helps to mitigate data migration risks at the customer environment
  
• Conduct detailed technical discovery of a customer environment
  
• Perform customer environment and data analysis, identify areas of focus for the delivery team
  
• Create a comprehensive end-to-end data migration plan that will support achieving customer desired outcomes
  
• Be a Pure storage product expert consulting customers on the best practice implementation techniques.
  
• Advise and consult on Pure solution implementation strategies that will help to address customer needs around areas like active clustering, DR replication, disaster recovery, monitoring and others
  
• Have expertise in performing all data migration tasks, able to lead and coach on them as necessary
  
• Lead a team of migration engineers through a migration execution phase
  
• Be an SME in at least 4 data migration areas (Block data migration, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Object, Compute, Application based migration, Host based migration)
  
• Provide support for the technical issues related to the migration architecture implementation.
  
• Develop scripts for both integration of Pure storage into a customer's operational environment and the automation of replication, clustering, cloud and data migrations
  

Requirements

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering; or related field is required
  
• 8 to 10 years of experience
  
• Experience which demonstrates a significant level of expertise in designing and delivering complex data migration solutions across heterogeneous storage platforms
  
• Excellent business focused verbal and written communication skills
  
• Ability to tailor messaging to the specific audience – sales, management, technical etc
  
• Ability to explain complex technical issues in a simple easy to understand way
  
• Be a technical expert around data migration techniques
  
• Storage solutions deployment experience in the enterprise environment
  
• 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)
  
• Virtualization 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, Komprise
  
• Multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning experience
  
• Operational knowledge of Windows, AIX, Unix, HP-US, Solaris, Linux Operating systems
  
• Knowledge of Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi
  
• 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, CIFS/SMB, NFS, S3, OSD, SAN)
  
• Knowledge of Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
  
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills, any additional languages are a definite benefit
  
• Team leadership skills
  

Preferred:

• Specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth in data migration tool sets (specifically the Cirrus Data Appliance) and disciplines
  
• Understanding of enterprise applications like Oracle, SAP, SQL
  
• Experience with deploying storage solutions in containerized and public cloud environments
  
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment.
  
• Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices
  
• Creative approach to problem solving
  
• Travel to the prospective customer's domestic sites and other global sites as necessary
  

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