**Introduction** The mission of the IBM Storage Solutions Engineering Team is to engage with strategic OEM and ISV vendors that are aligned with the IBM Storage strategy to create short- and long-term alignment of roadmaps and GTM. The team will engage heavily with the entire IBM Storage portfolio, its product managers, engineers, and technologists, and those at other leading technology companies worldwide. Our primary intention is to realize measurable, material, incremental business for the Storage product team accredited to our in-market solutions. This group is comprised of technology and business professionals who are intent on bringing to market impactful customer solutions based on the IBM Storage assets of today and the future. It will have influence over the product roadmaps and will evangelize everything we have to offer to our partners, our clients, and the worldwide market broadly. **Your role and responsibilities** The Storage Solutions Engineer will primarily be expected to: · Contribute to defining clear requirements for the IBM Storage portfolio based on industry trends and key OEM/ISV strategies, in collaborative partnership with Storage Product Managers · Design, develop, build, integrate, and test, validate, or otherwise certify differentiated workload-based solutions based on the IBM Storage portfolio of offerings combined with 3rd party technology from leading technology partners · Provide education to customers and sales regarding our storage solutions in a wide variety of formats (e.g., blogs, white papers, reference architectures, videos, industry social media, trade shows, on-site briefings, etc.) · Drive client success stories, references, and joint marketing opportunities between IBM Storage and our technology partners · Help foster the feeling of being a trusted advisor with our customers when it comes to strategic storage solutions · Enable cross-selling of other 3rd party solutions in the market **Required technical and professional expertise** It is expected that Storage Solutions Engineering Team members will be deeply familiar with at least a few relevant technology areas and broadly familiar with several others. Such technology areas (with example vendors and products) include: · Enterprise Storage: IBM, Dell-EMC, NetApp, Pure, DDN, HPE, Ceph, etc. · Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Nutanix, HPE SimpliVity, Dell-EMC VxRail, Cohesity, Red Hat, Pivot3, etc. · Virtualization: VMware, MS Hyper-V, Nutanix AOS, Red Hat OpenShift, KVM, SUSE, Citrix, etc. · AI/ML: Nvidia, IronYun, Data Monsters, etc. · Data Protection: Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik, etc. · Database: SAP, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, IBM Db2, MS Access, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, ELK, MariaDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Databricks, OpenText (Vertica), EnterpriseDB, etc. · Server Infrastructure: IBM, Dell-EMC, Lenovo, Cisco, Supermicro, etc. · Hyperscalar / Public Cloud: Amazon AWS, Google GCP, MS Azure, etc. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.