Senior Systems Engineer, Public Sector, Defence – Defence Industrial Base

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🕒 August 10

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Pure Storage

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Pure Storage is a leader in the field of data storage platforms, renowned for its innovative solutions in the industry. It has been consistently recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for both Primary Storage Platforms and File and Object Storage Platforms, achieving the highest marks in Execution and Vision. Pure Storage provides scalable and sustainable storage solutions that cater to both enterprise and cloud needs, emphasizing zero downtime and seamless performance. It offers a range of services including AI infrastructure, cloud deployments, and data protection, making it a critical player in modern data management.

📋 Description

• Partner with Account Executives on public sector and defence opportunities, including discovery, territory planning, solution direction, and progressing deals through the funnel • Act as a senior technical lead, mentoring and providing technical direction to less experienced Systems Engineers • Translate customer requirements into technical architectures, proposals, sizing, quotes, and solution concepts • Run technical presentations, demos, workshops, and follow-up sessions for government, defence, and defence industrial base customers • Enable and coach channel partner SEs through workshops, bootcamps, and joint customer engagements • Validate technical fit across storage architecture, protocols, virtualisation, infrastructure, security, and resilience requirements • Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Sales, Partners, Support, Product, and other internal teams • Participate in internal training, pipeline reviews, technical enablement, and knowledge sharing

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in pre-sales, systems engineering, solution architecture, or a similar customer-facing technical role • Experience ideally including public sector, defence, or defence industrial base customers • Strong grounding in storage and infrastructure fundamentals • Understanding of block, file, and object storage • Knowledge of FC, iSCSI, NAS, SAN, virtualisation, and VMware-style environments • Familiarity with UK government and defence procurement frameworks, including G-Cloud and Crown Commercial Service frameworks • Familiarity with security classifications and accreditation processes • Ability to lead consultative technical discovery and engage senior customers, prospects, and partners • Strong communication and presentation skills • Technical discovery and qualification skills • Experience working with or through channel partners and defence industrial base primes and SMEs • Ability to manage multiple priorities with attention to detail and follow-through • Completed enhanced UK Government security vetting required • Ability to travel regularly across the UK and Ireland for customer and partner meetings

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible time off • Wellness resources • Company-sponsored team events • Growth and development support • Employee Resource Groups • Accommodations for all aspects of the hiring process