Corporate Engineering Technical Sales DBA

At Infinidat, we help enterprises and service providers empower their data-driven competitive advantage at scale. We are a leading provider of enterprise-class storage solutions. The company’s software-focused architecture delivers sub-millisecond latency, full availability, and scalability with a significantly lower total cost of ownership than competing storage technologies.

We are seeking a highly skilled and versatile Corporate Engineering Technical Sales DBA to join our dynamic team. This hybrid role blends deep technical expertise in enterprise databases with strong customer-facing, solution-selling, and enablement skills. You will serve as the bridge between product engineering and customer engagements, capable of troubleshooting complex systems and articulating solutions to both technical and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the subject matter expert for all major database platforms, including:

-SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other emerging technologies.

• Troubleshoot and optimize database performance in complex, multi-platform environments.
• Understand and demonstrate the integration between databases and storage arrays, including:

-RAID configurations, replication technologies, snapshotting, and backup/restore methods.

• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to design and present technical solutions aligned to business goals.
• Write and maintain technical documentation, including:

-White papers, best practices, deployment guides, and integration manuals.

• Develop and utilize Python, shell scripting, and RESTful API calls to automate tasks and integrate solutions.
• Work across modern operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and AIX, and understand virtualization technologies:

-Such as LPARs (AIX), KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, etc.

• Present to large audiences, including customer technical teams, executives, and partner engineering groups.
• Provide technical enablement, training, and knowledge transfer to field teams and customers.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customers in pre-sales and post-sales engagements.
• Travel, a few times a year for a few days, is required.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on DBA experience with enterprise database platforms.
• Strong experience in performance tuning, including backup and architecture review.
• Working knowledge of storage technologies and how they interact with database systems.
• Basic programming/scripting skills:
• Python, Bash/Shell, and working knowledge of RESTful APIs.
• Proven experience with Windows, Linux, and AIX OS administration, including virtualized environments.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, comfortable speaking to technical and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and produce high-quality technical content.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a technical sales, pre-sales, or field engineering role.
• Familiarity with cloud database platforms (e.g., AWS RDS, Azure SQL, Oracle Cloud).
• Experience writing and maintaining automation scripts for performance benchmarking and diagnostics.
• Knowledge of containerized DBs (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes-based deployments) is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Self-motivated, highly organized, and capable of working in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment.
• Able to translate complex technical topics into customer-friendly language.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, sales, product management, and marketing teams.

About Infinidat

Infinidat’s enterprise storage portfolio provides global enterprises and service providers with best-in-class solutions for primary storage, next-generation data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cyber resilience. Infinidat’s InfuzeOS on all our platforms is the only single, software-defined storage architecture in the industry that spans all platforms. We recently showcased the future of enterprise storage, cyber security, and hybrid multi-cloud with our new and exciting G4 launch!

Not only has Infinidat won 24 awards in the first half of 2024, but has also been a 6-time winner of the Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer Award for Primary Storage and we can go on, and on, and on!