Senior Solutions Engineer

Overview

At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an Engineer with NetApp, you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.

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• Analytical
• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Detail-oriented
• Quick-thinking
• Problem solver

Responsibilities

• Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Job category: Systems Engineering

• Job ID: 136881-en_US

• Own Every Moment at NetApp

• At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

• Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will work closely with one or more client sales executives to align NetApp's technical strategy with the customer’s long-term vision and goals. You will address business and IT struggles with uniquely differentiated solutions. Collaborating with wider teams, you will evaluate the customer's business environment and how NetApp’s portfolio can enhance their journey. Your role involves providing deep technical knowledge in account development and account strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Identify and drive opportunities in new and existing customers in close collaboration with client executives. Increase NetApp revenue in the aligned accounts, maximizing NetApp's share of wallet within the accounts.
• Translate customer business needs into technical solutions based on NetApp’s portfolio, leveraging a broad knowledge of the competitive and technology landscape. Partner with wider teams to create comprehensive solutions.
• Conduct demonstrations and lead POCs in collaboration with SMEs as needed.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of both business and technology strategy, change management, and a principled approach to broad digital transformation opportunities.
• Use NetApp’s sales tools to effectively manage accounts, opportunities, and pipeline in alignment with the client executive.
• Identify growth opportunities outside of the existing install base of customers, workloads, and products. Continually develop the appropriate industry, solution, and technical acumen needed to increase relevance and footprint in accounts.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in a Technical Sales, Presales, or Solution Engineering role, having experience working with large strategic customers across the Abu Dhabi territory.

• Possess strong technical knowledge of all NetApp technologies, partner offerings, and the competitive landscape from a customer business perspective. Deep technical knowledge in Hybrid Cloud, Data Management Infrastructure, and Storage solutions.

• Very good knowledge of Cyber resilience and data protection, including backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware mitigation. Solid knowledge in AI & Analytics with experience in Data-Driven solutions and infrastructure planning for AI use cases.

• General Application and Database knowledge (e.g., Oracle, SQL, VDI, etc.), especially in industry-specific environments. Very good background in Video Surveillance solutions and storage needs, including VMS, retention strategies for sectors like public safety, transport, and smart cities.

• Fluent communicator with excellent presentation skills to create value propositions mapped to customer requirements.

• Provide technical leadership in team-selling environments and have strong relationships with customers across the territory.

• At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

Submitting an Application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

Our values

Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and your communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

• Volunteer time off

• 40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

• Well-being

• Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

• Time away

• Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status and any other protected classification. We pledge to take every reasonable step to ensure that our applicants and employees are respected, treated fairly and with dignity. See the EEO poster, Know your rights poster, and NetApp EEO policy. NetApp makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for religious purposes and for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions unless undue hardship would result.

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