Senior Partner Solutions Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 11, 2026.
Join VAST Data, a company revolutionizing enterprise infrastructure with the world's first Operating System for AI. As a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer, you will be a technical expert in VAST deployments on partner hardware, focusing on the VAST EBox platform. You will support VAST Sales Engineers and partner technical teams throughout the sales cycle, provide architecture guidance and best practices, and help design solutions for strategic opportunities. Your success will ensure a high-performance and differentiated customer experience on partner hardware.
Missions
- Assumer la responsabilité de la stratégie technique et du succès sur le terrain du modèle de déploiement basé sur les partenaires de VAST.
- Agir en tant qu'expert technique pour les solutions basées sur EBox, en fournissant des conseils d'architecture, des meilleures pratiques et un soutien tout au long du cycle de vente.
- Collaborer étroitement avec les équipes de support, d'ingénierie et de produit pour résoudre les problèmes sur le terrain et traduire l'expérience de déploiement en améliorations de produit et de processus.
Profil recherché
- Experience with OEM server platforms and/or enterprise storage technologies is highly desirable- The credibility and communication skills to serve as a technical authority for experienced Sales Engineers, customers and partner engineering teams
- Strong troubleshooting instincts and the ability to isolate complex problems across hardware, networking, firmware and software layers
- Ability to translate workload requirements into infrastructure sizing, architecture and realistic performance expectations
- Strong networking expertise, including the ability to diagnose connectivity, configuration, topology and performance issues
- Exceptional technical depth across enterprise infrastructure, with the ability to understand how hardware, networking and distributed software interact as a complete system
- Experience evaluating the impact of hardware or configuration changes on system performance, reliability and operational behavior
- Deep hands-on experience deploying, tuning and troubleshooting complex infrastructure in production data centers
- Comfortable moving between strategic architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem solving
- Strong knowledge of enterprise storage, distributed systems, software-defined infrastructure and server architecture
- Background in sales engineering, field engineering, professional services, implementation, support engineering or a similar customer-facing technical role
- Strong candidates may come from enterprise infrastructure, storage, networking or software-defined systems companies
- The ideal candidate combines the technical depth of a senior field, services or support engineer with the architecture skills and customer presence of an experienced Sales Engineer
- More important than any specific company background is the ability to become a true platform expert: someone who understands how the solution behaves in the real world, can guide other technical teams with confidence, and can take ownership when a strategic customer deployment needs to succeed