Solutions Engineer

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Solutions Engineer supporting CTERA’s enterprise data platform sales through technical designs, demos, and proofs of concept. Advising enterprise customers and partners on storage, cloud, networking, and security solutions.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide product, service, or equipment technical and engineering information by answering questions and requests
  • Provide technical sales support throughout the sales cycle, including qualifying opportunities, selling solutions on technical merits, responding to RFIs and RFPs, designing and sizing proposed solutions
  • Establish and maintain relationships with customers and partners
  • Resolve complex issues creatively and effectively using professional concepts and company objectives
  • Deliver technical presentations explaining products and services to customers and prospective clients
  • Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide technical-sales support
  • Conduct proofs of concept with written and communicated scopes of work and success criteria
  • Transfer knowledge to customers and partners through demos and hands-on training
  • Collect and document product feedback and requests for enhancements for Product Management
  • Submit orders by conferring with technical support staff

Requirements:

  • 5+ years’ experience as a Sales Engineer in the storage and/or cloud industries
  • Strong presentation and technical analysis skills
  • Some overnight travel required
  • Storage experience with NAS, file systems, object storage, CIFS/SMB, and NFS
  • Background in deploying, securing, and managing file servers and backup & archiving software
  • 2+ years’ experience in VMware, including Datacenter Virtualization Certification, or AWS/Azure Certified Solution Architect
  • Proven TCP/IP knowledge and experience with HTTP, TLS, DNS, LDAP, and SAML v2
  • Experience using network troubleshooting tools such as Wireshark
  • Experience with Microsoft Windows Desktop and Server Platforms, including ADDS and DNS
  • Experience with Linux, including RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu
  • Practical experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms
  • Documentation experience editing guides, sales presentations, network configuration diagrams, and asset management