[Hiring] Senior Partner Solutions Engineer @VAST Data

Role Description

VAST Data is looking to hire a Senior Partner Solutions Engineer– OEM / eBox to join our growing team! This role sits at the intersection of solution architecture, field engineering, product expertise, and strategic customer engagement.

The Senior Partner Solutions Engineer will own the technical strategy and field success of VAST’s partner-based deployment model. You will:

• Serve as VAST’s technical subject matter expert for EBox and other partner-based deployment models.
• Act as an escalation point and trusted advisor for VAST Sales Engineers designing solutions on partner hardware.
• Participate in strategic customer campaigns that demonstrate the technical and economic value of deploying the VAST AI OS on partner platforms.
• Size and architect solutions based on customer workloads, performance objectives, capacity requirements, and infrastructure constraints.
• Develop clear expectations for performance, scalability, resiliency, and operational experience across supported hardware configurations.
• Understand how server, networking, storage media, and configuration choices affect VAST performance and customer experience.
• Recommend and help validate platform customizations for highly strategic opportunities.
• Guide customers and partners through pre-installation readiness, infrastructure validation, and deployment planning.
• Develop custom installation and success plans for complex or strategic deployments.
• Lead or coordinate troubleshooting of challenging deployment issues spanning hardware, networking, configuration, and VAST software.
• Partner closely with Support, Engineering, and Product to resolve field issues and translate deployment experience into product and process improvements.
• Build repeatable architectures, deployment practices, sizing methodologies, and technical guidance that enable the broader SE and partner ecosystem to operate independently.
• Support VAST Amplify and other software-defined deployment models that extend the VAST AI OS across customer-selected infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Exceptional technical depth across enterprise infrastructure.
• Deep hands-on experience deploying, tuning, and troubleshooting complex infrastructure in production data centers.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise storage, distributed systems, software-defined infrastructure, and server architecture.
• Strong networking expertise, including diagnosing connectivity, configuration, topology, and performance issues.
• Ability to translate workload requirements into infrastructure sizing, architecture, and realistic performance expectations.
• Experience evaluating the impact of hardware or configuration changes on system performance, reliability, and operational behavior.
• Strong troubleshooting instincts and the ability to isolate complex problems across hardware, networking, firmware, and software layers.
• The credibility and communication skills to serve as a technical authority for experienced Sales Engineers, customers, and partner engineering teams.
• Comfortable moving between strategic architecture discussions and hands-on technical problem solving.
• Background in sales engineering, field engineering, professional services, implementation, support engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
• Experience with OEM server platforms and/or enterprise storage technologies is highly desirable.
• Ability to travel to strategic customer and partner locations across the United States as required.

Ideal Background

• 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.
• Strong candidates may come from enterprise infrastructure, storage, networking, or software-defined systems companies.
• Ability to become a true platform expert, guiding other technical teams with confidence and taking ownership of strategic customer deployments.