Qumulos cloud data platform manages exabytes of the worlds most demanding data unifying files objects and every workload across edge core and cloud About the role As Qumulos Senior Presales Systems Engineer for South Korea youll be the technical lead behind our enterprise growth in one of the regions most demanding markets In this role you will run proof of concept deployments end to end partner with Account Executives to navigate Korean enterprise procurement and work with local system integrators and cloud providers to build channel pipeline Our ideal Systems Engineer combines deep hands on technical specialization with executive level business strategy with the ability to map Qumulos platform to complex business outcomes while maintaining the technical credibility to go deep into the weeds with enterprise engineers and kernel level architects Responsibilities Run proof of concept deployments end to end rack the gear configure multi protocol access NFS SMB S3 debug scripts and performance tune Linux storage stacks in network separated environmentsGo deep with customer engineering teams on complex architectures including multi protocol configurations data protection rules and active active replication topologiesTranslate complex scale out storage metrics into high level business value by partnering with Account Executives to navigate Korean enterprise procurement calculate TCO and build business cases for C level buyersDrive technical and commercial alignment with Korean system integrators Samsung SDS LG CNS SK C&C and domestic cloud providers Naver Cloud KT Cloud to advance channel pipelineSurface customers real pain points through consultative discovery and respectfully question legacy infrastructure assumptionsAct as the bridge between the Korean market and Qumulos global engineering team making sure local compliance needs and feature gaps get heardPresent technical sessions in Korean to local engineers and enterprise buyers and collaborate across APAC and HQ in EnglishQualifications 7 years in technical pre sales systems engineering or enterprise storage architecture with a focus on fileobject storage or scale out distributed systemsDeep knowledge of storage access protocols NFS v3v4 SMB native S3 API integration enterprise networking InfiniBand RoCE 100GbE fabrics and Linux operating system internalsWorking expertise across AWS Azure and Google Cloud including certification in one or moreA track record of running complex software and hardware evaluations independently including stress testing FIO IOR and live troubleshooting without relying on back end support teamsFluency in Korean and English written and spokenCandidates with the following additional experience will be highly regarded Experience managing multi million dollar enterprise sales cycles negotiating vendor terms or building TCO models against incumbent platforms such as NetApp Dell PowerScale or Vast DataHands on experience configuring storage backends for GPU accelerated computing eg NVIDIA DGX clusters in machine learning autonomous driving or HPC environmentsFamiliarity with South Koreas Cloud Security Assurance Program CSAP and the Personal Information Protection Act PIPA as they apply to data storage replication and encryption at restIndustry depth in one or more of Qumulos core verticals media and entertainment autonomous driving semiconductor development or high performance computingIndividual pay depends on various factors such as level relevant experience and skills