About the Role

As a Commercial Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Veeam, you will serve as a trusted technical and strategic advisor to enterprise customers as they navigate some of their most critical technology decisions. You will engage with a wide range of stakeholders — including executives, senior IT leadership, architects, engineers, and IT practitioners — to help them design resilient, secure, and future-ready data platforms that deliver real business outcomes.

This role is built for a technologist who thrives on complexity, curiosity, and impact. You will operate at the intersection of technology strategy, architecture, and real-world operations — engaging deeply in technical design while also influencing business conversations around data resilience, cyber recovery, risk reduction, and modernization. Your ability to connect technical depth with business relevance is what earns trust and drives meaningful change.

You will help customers modernize across on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and SaaS environments, ensuring data resilience, security, and governance are foundational to everything they build.

What You’ll Do

Organizations depend on their data to operate, innovate, and compete — and when that data is unavailable, compromised, or untrusted, the impact is immediate and severe. This role exists to help customers remain resilient in the face of cyber threats, operational failures, and constant infrastructure change.

As an Commercial Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, you influence decisions that directly affect business continuity, cyber recovery readiness, regulatory posture, and long-term digital transformation. Your work enables organizations to recover faster, operate with confidence, and safely use their data across cloud and platform ecosystems — even under the most challenging conditions.

• Lead complex pre-sales engagements, including discovery, architecture design, solution positioning, and technical validation.


• Act as a trusted advisor to IT practitioners, engineers, architects, and senior leaders by translating business objectives into secure, resilient, and scalable architectures.


• Deliver compelling technical demonstrations and decision-maker presentations that clearly articulate business value, cyber risk reduction, and operational outcomes.


• Design and manage proofs-of-concept (POCs) to technical closure, aligned to customer success criteria and operational realities.


• Collaborate with customers and partners to define architectural strategies supporting data resilience, ransomware recovery, compliance, and hybrid-cloud adoption.


• Create tailored proposals and contribute to enterprise-scale RFP and RFx responses.


• Maintain strong awareness of industry trends, emerging threats, and competitive positioning to effectively represent Veeam in business discussions.


• Partner closely with sales, product management, engineering, and ecosystem partners to influence solution architecture and product direction.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in pre-sales systems engineering, solutions architecture, or similar technical leadership roles, with a strong focus on large enterprise environments.


• Proven success leading complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles, including discovery, solution design, POCs, and executive-level engagements.


• Strong technical background across data resilience, infrastructure platforms, virtualization, cloud services, networking, and security.


• Working knowledge of data security, privacy, and governance, including regulatory and compliance considerations relevant to enterprise customers.


• Foundational understanding of AI, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs), with the ability to articulate how trusted, resilient data underpins AI initiatives.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with proven public presentation experience delivering compelling messages to executives, senior IT leadership, and large technical or industry audiences.


• Self-motivated, high-energy technologist who can learn quickly, adapt, and operate effectively in fast-moving enterprise environments.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with cloud and SaaS platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.


• Strong working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, including administration, troubleshooting, and performance considerations in enterprise deployments.


• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and architectures, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and network security concepts as they relate to data protection and recovery.


• Hands-on experience across enterprise infrastructure domains such as virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), enterprise storage platforms, identity and access management, and Kubernetes-based environments commonly found in modern hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.


• Prior experience with data protection, cyber resilience, or enterprise infrastructure vendors.


• Relevant technical or industry certifications (cloud, security, architecture).


• Observability, monitoring, and operational tooling that supports resilience and recovery workflows


• Containerized and cloud-native application platforms, including Kubernetes data protection and recovery considerations


• SaaS application data resilience (e.g., Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and other enterprise SaaS services)


• API-driven automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code concepts


• Cyber recovery and clean-room architectures


• Data governance, classification, and policy-driven protection models