Overview
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Current Positions
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Responsibilities:
- Provide data analysis to obtain and present strong insights from various metrics
- Research inquiries, authenticate data patterns and clarify intricate business problems
- Serve in an internal consultative role to provide solid business background information
- Prepare and generate reports to help make business decisions.
- Participate in various groups to be up to date in Application Program Interface (API)
Requirements:
- MBA Degree
- 2 years of relevant working experience
- Possess strong experience in business planning and consulting
- Must be proficient in MS-Excel and data analysis
- Familiar with API
- Must be a quick learner and self-starter
Location: Mountain View CA
Job Description:
- Develop tests used to certify hardware for Nexenta*s software storage appliance
- Review all Certifications Test result reports
- Collaborate with Product management and Support team to prioritize, delegate and monitor incoming certification test requests
- Conduct comparative performance testing of Nexenta software-based solution against competitors
Basic Qualifications:
- BS in Computer engineering or relevant experience
- 3 to 4 yrs of Perl and C coding experience
- Unix/Linux experience
- Deep Storage software and hardware knowledge
- Deep knowledge of Virtualization (experience with VMWare and Citrix)
- Good knowledge of server hardware
- Good Networking knowledge
- VMware VCP certification preferred
- Ability to work independently with partners and customers
Responsibilities:
- Evaluation partner hardware(computer configuration, component) prior to Nexenta certification
- Verify that the physical components match a Schematic made available as part of the Certification Testing Requirements
- Evaluate Topology and System Configuration that is made available as part of the Certification Testing Requirements
- Technical analysis of certification failures and collaboration with hardware vendors and Nexenta’s Engineering team to resolve failures.
- Consultancy with partner to suggest potential computer configuration improvements that is best suited for
- Evaluation and improvement of testing infrastructure in Nexenta Certification lab
- Collaboration with Field Engineering and Sales Engineering and vendors to gather information needed to continuously add value to Nexenta Certification Testsuite.
Qualifications:
- 10 years of relevant industry experience
- Deep storage hardware knowledge( JBOD SSDs, HDDs, HBAs) [1]
- Deep server hardware knowledge[2]
- Deep software and hardware knowledge of Networking.
- Systems configuration knowledge for storage solutions.
- Knowledge of storage related ( iSCSI, CIFS, NFS etc)
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Solaris Dtrace knowledge is desired
- Good communication skills to interact with the partners
- Fluency in Perl, Java Preferred
Responsibilities:
- Design, plan and implement Nexenta Storage solutions for enterprise customers.
- Works with support to troubleshoot anomalies and liaise with Nexenta engineering, sales and or third party vendors to resolve product issues.
- Analyze case data and customer input to identify product improvement opportunities.
- Executes professional service statements of work.
- Detailed understanding of product architecture, technical components, and application functionality
- Experience participating in product design and technical reviews related to new features or enhancements, providing product supportability and implementation feedback
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree also preferred
- A minimum of 7 years IT industry systems administration experience preferably in Data Storage and enterprise operations.
- Minimum 2 years direct customer facing roles.
- Previous experience in storage and systems architecture in an enterprise environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to lead an initiative through execution
- Ability to create and maintain architecture documentation
- Strong work ethic, competitive drive and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a desire to solve business problems in collaboration with peers in sales, business development, product, etc.
- Experience planning and executing strategies to accomplish goals.
- Strong written & verbal communication skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Ability to analyze data.
- Ability to speak effectively before internal and external customers
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to communicate in a high pressure environment.
Responsibilities:
- Engage externally with end user customers and resellers to understand their product requirements
- Work internally with business units to gather their product requirements
- Work with engineering to synthesize product requirements into a product roadmap and prioritized feature list
- Evaluate the competition in enterprise storage and technology trends. Use this information to shape the product strategy
- Engage with potential partners in the VDI ecosystem to help bring our solution to market
Skills:
- Strong knowledge of virtualization and VDI market
- Experience working with VMware or Citrix products
- Highly desirable to have experience as either a program manager or technical product manager at a storage hardware vendor such as EMC or NetApp.
- Outstanding track record of delivery and promotion.
- Broad knowledge of the enterprise IT space and key trends impacting the storage landscape.
- Strategic thinker with a strong enterprise background who is able to blend technology and business strategy to develop compelling product plans and to communicate them clearly.
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal
- Proven ability to work successfully in cross-functional environments to achieve results.
- Highly motivated and independent contributor.
- MBA from top-tier university or other significant business experience desirable.
Locations: Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia
Job Description:
The role of our sales engineers involves supporting the sales team in both pre and post sales activities. We are looking for a Sales Engineer with excellent technical, communication and organizational skills to join our team.
Key activities include the following:
- Prepare and present demonstrations to potential customers
- Address technical questions that arise during the sales process
- Identify risks and opportunities related to new customers
- Understand and assess the customer needs and requirements
- Work closely with our support, product and engineering teams
- Manage the implementation process with new customers
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
- 3 – 5 years of experience in a similar role
- Knowledge of Open Source Software
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Job Description:
This role will be responsible for complex, globally-distributed activities that are part of the Nexenta Solutions Certification Program by planning and managing projects to meet demand from Business Development and Sales teams for Certifications of Nexenta software on various hardware configurations. In fulfilling the role, an individual must proactively identify, scope, assess, evaluate, schedule and track the detailed status of certification activities. This role requires a high degree of business and technical collaboration to quickly determine, present and gain agreement on approaches to effective and efficient hardware certification.
Reporting Relationships:
This role will report to the Program Manager, Product Management accountable for the Nexenta Solutions Certification Program.
Job Description:
This role will require effective interfacing with junior and senior members of the Nexenta Business Development, Engineering, Marketing and Sales teams.
Minimum Experience (in order of priority):
- Seven (7) to ten (10) years of professional experience.
- Five (5) of the last seven (7) years in a Senior Project Manager role responsible for complex functional/technical projects with budgets ranging from $500K-$5MM and multiple, matrixed teams of (2)-(25) resources.
- Three (3) of the last seven (7) years managing technical [Information Technology] projects in the Technology industry.
- Three (3) years of experience managing projects in support of Data Management/Migration/Storage initiatives in a $1B+ organization.
- Demonstrated experience with modern IT infrastructure, Management/Migration/Storage and/or ITIL concepts.
- Demonstrated professional communication skills necessary to interface with Senior- and VP-level decision makers as well as ability to move from strategic topics directly to details of execution with relative ease.
- Demonstrated professional experience effectively working in globally-dispersed organizations compromised of team members from different cultures and languages.
Preferred Experience (in order of priority):
- Five (5) years of initiating and leading process reengineering and/or improvement projects in the Technology industry, Hardware and/or Software verticals.
- Five (5) years of initiating and leading systems development/enhancement/migration/upgrade projects in the Technology industry, Hardware and/or Software verticals.
- Five (5) years of professional management and/or IT consulting experience in $1B+ organizations.
- Five (5) years of professional experience in start-ups or small business management.
Minimum Qualifications (in order of priority):
- Five (5) of the last seven (7) years designing/maintaining/using robust client-server/desktop/web-based applications for managing complex program and project information.
- Highly-proficient in database/spreadsheet/web-based technologies, techniques and tools.
Preferred Qualifications (in order of priority):
- Five (5) of the last seven (7) years designing/maintaining/using robust client-server/desktop/web-based applications for managing complex program and project information.
- Highly-proficient in database/spreadsheet/web-based technologies, techniques and tools.
- Highly-experienced in analytics, application design/development and data management approaches and practices, including: financial and operational data analytics/business intelligence; client-server/desktop/web-based financial/management/operational applications, and database administration/design/ modeling/ management.
Job Description:
To support Nexenta customers ensuring that proper operating procedures are followed; service requests are being expedited. You will also maintain that staff always provides a superior support experience to our customers and partners.
Responsibilities:
- Provides level 2 support escalation services for supported customer base.
- Serves as key member of Event Management Team
- Works with support to troubleshoot anomalies and liaise with engineering or third party vendors to resolve product issues.
- Analyze case data and customer input to identify product improvement opportunities.
- Scopes, prepares and executes professional service statements of work.
- Detailed understanding of product architecture, technical components, and application functionality
- Experience participating in product design and technical reviews related to new features or enhancements, providing product supportability and implementation feedback
- Subject matter expert in product deployment and operations
- Set up and document troubleshooting procedures for new products
- Proven ability to mentor and display leadership and ownership of issues and process with business interactions
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Directs and controls the activities of functional area/s through department manager/s
Education / Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree also preferred
- A minimum of 10 years IT industry experience preferably in Data Storage and enterprise operations.
- Minimum 3 years direct customer facing roles.
- Minimum of 2 years direct Open Source experience preferred
- Previous experience in storage and systems architecture in an enterprise environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to lead an initiative through execution
- Ability to create and maintain architecture documentation
- Strong work ethic, competitive drive and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a desire to solve business problems in collaboration with peers in sales, business development, product, etc.
- Experience planning and executing strategies to accomplish goals.
- Strong written & verbal communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
Language, Mathematical, and/or Reasoning Ability:
- Exceptional analytical & problem-solving skills.
- Excellent project management skills
- Ability to analyze data.
- Ability to speak effectively before internal and external customers
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability to communicate in a high pressure environment.
Estimated Working Hours:
- Work between 45 - 50 hours a week.
Estimated Working Hours:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
- The employee is occasionally required to walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.
- In the performance of the duties of this job the employee may be required to travel, or drive a motor vehicle.
- The employee frequently communicates using telephone and e-mail.
Job Summary:
As a Software Engineer you will work as part of a team responsible for participating in the development, testing and debugging of operating systems and ZFS file systems that run NexentaStor. As part of the Research and Development function, the overall focus of the group is on competitive market and customer requirements, technology advances, product quality, product cost and time-to-market. Software engineers focus on enhancements to existing products as well as new product development.
Responsibilities:
- A major part of your responsibility will be to apply current skills and use up-to-date technologies to complete projects as part of the development cycle including:
- Coding
- Testing
- Test automation
- Debugging
- Reliability
- Performance analysis
- As part of a team, you will participate in technical discussions where evaluating and executing design and development plans for products are reviewed. You will have direct influence on the decisions and outcomes related to project direction.
- A willingness to work on additional tasks and responsibilities that will contribute towards team, department, and company goals.
Requirements:
- Proficiency in C, Data structures and kernel debugging techniques required. Must have full commitment to sound software engineering practices and a passion for quality
- Strong proficiency in NFS 4.0 server side programming
- Storage, File Systems and/or NAS/SAN product development experience is required.
- Strong oral and written communication skills are essential.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers and have strong influencing and leadership
skills.
- Experience in software design and development.
- Ability to work on complex issues where analysis situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
Responsibility and Interaction:
The tasks this individual is responsible for are often unstructured, have wide implications and there are multiple outcomes. This individual will apply broad expertise or unique technical/industry knowledge in solving problems that are unique and extremely complex given time, budget and resource constraints.
Education & Experience:
- A minimum of 4 years of experience is required.
- A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Master Degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.
- Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, moderately complex technical tasks
Job Description:
To design, implement and support Nexenta solutions with a focus on enterprise customers. Works with Sales and Engineering to ensure final solution proposed is a supported configuration and customers are trained to operate the installed environment. The role involves supporting the sales team in both pre and post sales activities. We are looking for a Solutions Architect with excellent technical, communication and organizational skills to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Design, plan and implement Nexenta Storage solutions for major accounts, OEM's and resellers
- Works with support to troubleshoot anomalies and liaise with engineering or third party vendors to resolve product issues
- Analyze case data and customer input to identify product improvement opportunities
- Scopes, prepares and executes professional service statements of work
- Works with sales engineers to roll out new products
- Reasonable understanding of product architecture, technical components, and application functionality
- Experience participating in product design and technical reviews related to new features or enhancements, providing product supportability and implementation feedback
- Subject matter expert in product deployment and operations
- Set up and document troubleshooting procedures for new products
- Proven ability to mentor and display leadership and ownership of issues and process with business interactions
- Prepare and present demonstrations to potential customers
- Address technical questions that arise during the sales process
- Identify risks and opportunities related to new customers
- Work closely with our support, product and engineering teams
- Manage the implementation process with new customers
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree also preferred
- A minimum of 15 years IT industry experience preferably in Data Storage and enterprise operations
- Minimum 5 years direct customer facing roles
- Minimum of 3 years direct Open Source experience preferred
- Previous experience in storage and systems architecture in an enterprise environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to lead an initiative through execution
- Ability to create and maintain architecture documentation
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Job Description:
Main job duties include lead generation, cold calling and sales. This position requires an aggressive and enthusiastic personality who can articulate Nexenta’s value proposition to executive level decision-makers across all industries.
Responsibilities:
- Understand Nexenta’s product strengths, functionality, positioning, competition and apply that understanding to a prospect’s specific business needs and pain points
- Understand our product and service offerings
- Engage resources and people within Nexenta to ensure successful relationships with Channel Partners and end users
- Provide renewal and upgrade quotes for end users
- Proactively contact end users to establish satisfaction with the product and compliance throughout the course of the license following agreed retention process
- Regularly set up and attend onsite customer meetings to insure continued satisfaction with product/service delivery and identify additional sales opportunities.
- Consistently achieve, as a minimum, sales targets
- Develop and maintain internal relationship with key supporting functions within Nexenta
- Leadership of cross functional teams as required
- Effectively manage all customer interactions
- Work with medium-large corp accounts to maximize renewal rates and seek upgrade opportunities through cross and up selling
- Contact potential customers and up sell opportunities from contacts/customers identified as a result of partner relationships
- Research assigned territories for target accounts and senior contacts
Experience:
Minimum 3 years of previous software industry sales experience. Personal attributes including: positive outlook, self-motivated, good attention to detail, and strong follow through on assigned tasks.
Skills:
- Enthusiasm, discipline and good communication skills are the most essential requirements
- Three to five years successful experience in an outbound sales environment is desired
- Great verbal and written communication skills
- Attention to detail and follow-up skills, including consistent use of our CRM to record and track activity
- Experience calling on senior executives at all sizes of organizations
- Ability to organize and prioritize work independently
- Ability to research and think creatively to uncover new account leads
- Solid computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel
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Nexenta does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. For the protection of all parties involved in the process, resumes will only be accepted from a firm if a signed agreement is in place with that firm at the inception of the effort for each specified position. Any unsolicited resume sent to Nexenta from a recruiter does not constitute any type of relationship between the recruiter and Nexenta and will be deemed the property of our Company, Any unsolicited resume sent to Nexenta from a recruiter does not obligate Nexenta to pay fees if we hire the candidate.
For consideration, please send your company information, a copy of your standard search agreement, and references to our human resources department.
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