Senior Sales Engineer

Company: 6WIND
Location: Austin
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

Job Description6WIND USA is seeking a Senior Sales Engineer for its vRouter products business in the Americas. This is a strategic role within the company. Your mission will be to become a key and respected technical resource to IT infrastructure personnel at Service Provider and Enterprise accounts. This is a unique, ground floor opportunity to join the company's growing team in the Americas. The position reports to the Vice President of Sales for the Americas.--A successful candidate will:---Enjoy the dynamic atmosphere required to rapidly grow business. A "startup" mentality is required.---Be highly driven to succeed within a deeply technical environment.---Have strong communication skills, both verbal and written.---Be comfortable having dynamic technical discussions, and demonstrating professional debugging skills, with network engineers and architects at customer sites or on the phone/web.---Be able to work remotely (possibly from a home office) and accomplish duties by use of phone and the web.--Some of the duties include:---Being responsible for the pre-sales technical interface with the customer.---Working with customers to understand their network infrastructure and server integration requirements.---Preparing and delivering product presentations and demonstrations.---Helping Sales, Marketing and Product Management gather technical details of customer requirements and deployments.---Helping in the qualification of leads and preparation of proposals.---Being a compelling advocate for our technical value proposition.---Proposing alternate network architecture when required.---Continuing to train and keep up to date on 6WIND's products as well as products and markets relevant to our product roadmap.--Desired Skills and Experience:---This position requires, at a minimum, a BS Degree in a related field.---Certifications: Cisco CCNA, CCNP or CCIE is an asset.---Must have at least 5 years of pre-sales experience in networking software working directly with customers.---Enterprise network topology design/analysis experience.---Hands-on experience with:---Router/switch configuration experience via a CLI, API or NETCONF/YANG.---IPsec and CG-NAT.---Linux system administration.---Server architectures (implementing bare-metal and virtual machine deployments).---x86 servers (ARM servers are a bonus).---Traffic Generator tools: IXIA, Spirent and Pktgen (DPDK) a plus.Resumes submitted should be in PDF format only.

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