This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

In Short

Build trusted customer relationships based on your customer-first mindset, technical excellence and command of VAST product
Respond to technical support issues quickly, working hands-on-keyboard to solve or escalate the issues while being highly communicative
Complete daily technical operations as needed for the customers, working technical issues to full resolution and closure.
Perform and support field services for customers: installations, upgrades, break-fix and expansions as needed
Submit and manage Feature Requests and/or Bugs into product marketing and development teams.
Advocate for the priorities of your assigned accounts and continuously track and follow up on bugs, feature requests and escalations.
Identify opportunities to provide continuous improvement for customers to ensure full adoption and usage of VAST products.
Support and guide VAST data account teams on account technical status and activities.
Manage workload to balance meeting KPIs and VAST SLAs with ensuring customer happiness and satisfaction

Requirements

Overall 5+ years of experience in customer-facing, pre-sale/post-sale positions working with complex storage solutions.
Ability to manage own time and case load with rapidly changing priorities
Extensive knowledge and experience in the enterprise IT infrastructure, networking and storage space is required, along with a broad understanding of the enterprise software world.
Knowledge and working experience in common Linux system administration tasks and Linux OS in general.
Good understanding of networking, and working experience with network configurations on Linux and network troubleshooting
Scripting and programming - bash scripting is required; must be familiar with one or more other programming language
Significant experience required in the areas of file systems and scale-out NAS Implementation
An advantage to candidates that have In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with S3 and high-performance computing.
Excellent business written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
An advantage to candidates that have hands-on lab and hardware management experience.
An advantage to candidates that have experience working in a rapidly growing entrepreneurial, dynamic start up.
MS or B.Sc. in CS, CE, EE or related fields.
Ability to travel. To be successful in this role, you will need to travel around 20% of the time.
Rotational weekend shift once every 8-12 weeks and occasional holiday coverage.

Benefits

Opportunity to work in a fast-growing company at the forefront of AI technology.
Collaborative and innovative work environment.
Chance to make a significant impact in the company and industry.
Professional development opportunities.
Flexible working conditions.