Specialist Solutions Engineer

Company: VMware, Inc.
Location: Austin
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

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Job Description

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable our more than 350,000 enterprise and SMB customers to thrive in the Cloud Era/ A pioneer in the use of virtualization and automation technologies. Our team of 20,000+ people working in 50+ locations worldwide is committed to building a community where great people want to work long term by living our values of passion, innovation, execution, collaboration, active learning and giving back. If you are ready to accelerate, innovate and lead, join us as we challenge constraints and problem solve for tomorrow today.

This role will sit in VMware's Security Business Unit, VMware Carbon Black; a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection dedicated to keeping the world safe from cyber-attacks. The VMware Carbon Black Cloud consolidates endpoint protection and IT operations into an endpoint protection platform (EPP) that prevents advanced threats, provides actionable insight and enables businesses of all sizes to simplify operations.

Job Role and Responsibilities:

As part of a highly collaborative sales team, the Solutions Engineer works closely with sales, marketing, and product management to demonstrate product capability, inspire confidence, and effectively communicate the power of VMware Carbon Black solutions. A majority of time will be spent delivering product demonstrations to remote prospective clients to illustrate how VMware Carbon Black's solutions provide direct value to their business and technical requirements.Required Skills:

• Evangelize and demonstrate VMware Carbon Black's products via presentations and product demos
• Involvement in prospect evaluation process
• Build and maintain prospect and partner relationships
• Ensure a smooth and successful transition (externally and internally) from sales process to service delivery
• Assist in developing and evolving standard methodologies for Sales Engineering activities
• Provide product feature input to product management
• Apprise Sales Engineering management of overall health of prospects (technical, organizational, operational and sponsorship)

Preferred Skills :

• Technical degree from four year college (or equivalent)
• Industry experience (2-4 years of experience) with technical experience gained through recent Security-related employment
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Ability to present to technical audiences and be able to gracefully handle objections
• Ability to effectively and quickly assess client/prospect needs
• Dedication to quality work, attention to detail and sense of urgency and ownership of work deliverables
• Experience with endpoint and server security
• Experience with deployment tools and deployment of software
• Experience with APIs, Python, and other languages
• Experience with Windows 2000, XP,7, 8, 2003/2008/2012 application server and supporting technologies/products
• Knowledge of Microsoft Windows configuration and management
• Shown technical track record with securing Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems
• This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by VMware.

VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.

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