Consulting Solutions Engineer

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
Consulting Solution Engineer within NetApp's Sales organization, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, channel partners, and internal stakeholders. You will play a critical role in driving revenue growth by aligning NetApp's technology solutions with customer business objectives and leading technical sales engagements across a high-value account portfolio.
This is a highly visible, customer-facing role offering significant opportunities for career growth and exposure to strategic enterprise customers. Success in this role requires strong technical expertise, consultative selling skills, executive presence, and the ability to build lasting relationships with customers, partners, Client Executives, and Sales Leaders.
Job Responsibilities
Partner with Client Executives to develop and execute account strategies that drive revenue growth and market expansion.
Build trusted relationships with technical stakeholders, business leaders, and C-level executives.
Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer challenges, requirements, and business objectives.
Architect, demonstrate, and position NetApp solutions aligned to customer outcomes.
Provide technical leadership throughout the sales cycle, including solution design, POCs, validation, and closure.
Collaborate with channel partners and internal teams to drive opportunities and achieve territory goals.
Present NetApp’s technology vision, value proposition, and competitive differentiation.
Job Requirement
Qualifications
Experience in presales, solutions consulting, or sales engineering.
Strong knowledge of enterprise storage, data protection, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud solutions.
Ability to present complex technical solutions to both technical and executive audiences.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and customer engagement skills.
Experience influencing enterprise technology buying decisions and driving technical wins.
Education & Experience
Minimum 15 years of experience in Technical Presales, Solution Engineering, or a related customer-facing technology role.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
Postgraduate degree or equivalent advanced qualification preferred. Cross-Functional Skills:
Nvidia Certification, exposure to AI workloads and solutioning skills, worked on solutions with CSPs for AI Cloud. Knowledge on sizing solutions for AI workload and able to converse on solution stack. Basic understanding of machine learning fundamentals, deep learning, LLMs, and vector/streaming databases. Act as the knowledge bridge between infra stakeholders, data scientists, ML engineers, and DevOps/security teams and able to bring in skills to stitch complex solutions together. Proficiency in Kubernetes, big data platforms, and cloud-native architecture.
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
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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.

Work arrangement
Hybrid