Principal System Engineer Job in Seattle 98199, Washington Us

At XIO Storage, we've established a strong foundation for success, based on creating a positive, challenging atmosphere. We believe that people do their best work in a positive, respectful, and challenging environment, where they are empowered with taking the initiative to ensure the company's success

We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits and great growth opportunities to our employees. If you have experience in the high-tech storage industry and fit the profile outlined, we urge you to review the available positions below and apply today.

Please note that XIO Storage does not accept unsolicited resume from third-party recruitment agencies, firms, or consultants. XIO Storage will not pay fees to any third party, agency, or firm that has not been expressly engaged by Human Resources in a specific search.

 

About XIO:

XIO is the leader in performance driven storage with the best price/performance/capacity ratios of any solution in the market. XIO pioneered the only True SHD storage system that amalgamates SSD and HDD in a single pool of storage, resulting in extreme performance that changes the economics of the data center. XIO empowers enterprises to drive database performance to its limits, accelerate business analytics, enable VDI deployments, and greatly improve their server virtualization consolidation ratios. In addition, enterprise-class reliability and ease of use are in our DNA and core aspects of all our storage systems. XIO is field-proven with thousands of deployments worldwide.

 

Summary:

As a Principal System Engineer, you will provide technical resources to Xiotech employees, customers and solution providers to facilitate the sale of Xiotech enterprise storage solutions.

This is a senior-level technical position in the SE/Architect career path. Incumbents are regional technical resource/experts. It is a career advancement opportunity for individuals who have demonstrated consistently superior performance and results over two or more years in Sr. System Engineering assignments. It is a career development opportunity for individuals who have been successful in Principal Channel Engineer or Sr. Corporate System Engineer assignments.

 

Principal Duties:

·         Conduct and/or participate in presale product presentations, demos, customer evaluations and ROI analyses. Deliver technical presentations and respond to technical questions during sales calls. Provide technical content for bids and sales proposals.

·         Design solutions to complex customer business and application problems. Develop and recommend Storage Area Network configurations, including fibre channel switches, hubs, tape storage and Xiotech hardware and software products.

·         Provide region-wide expert, hands-on guidance and project management for complex installations.

·         Establish and cultivate ongoing business relationships with customers to facilitate additional business.

·         Produce a minimum of one white paper per quarter on topics such as best practices in storage.

·         Document prospect customer contact activity and customer configuration information in Clientele. Document personal activity with status and time reporting.

 

Education

·         Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or Information Technology) from a four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 

Experience

·         Ten or more years of related, professional experience, including four or more years of experience selling, maintaining or installing client/server hardware and software systems, and three or more years of experience consulting and designing Open Systems SAN solutions.

 

Professional Skills and Certifications

·         Working level knowledge of MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Visio, Powerpoint, Project)

·         Advanced level knowledge with two or more open OS

·         Certification in a fibre channel by SNIA or a preferred fabric partner

·         One or more OS certifications are desirable, but not required

·         Must demonstrate strong analytical skills, design, problem solving, project management, technical skills, oral and written communication, team work, leadership, business acumen, cost consciousness, ethics, initiative, innovation, planning and organizing, and quality of work.

 

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.

 

Education Required: Bachelors (Tech) or equivalent

Experience Required: 10 years

Physical Requirements: No

Limited Travel Required: Yes

 

 


Division/Department : Field/Remote