Sales Engineer ~ Networking and Application & Linux/Windows

US HealthCare Careers•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Seeking a Sales Engineer to assist the Sales team in reaching the revenue goal by providing quality pre-sales technical support and presentations focused on articulating value to the prospective buyer. Represent as the product solution specialist with the ability to cross between network resilience and security solutions, and work to insure the best possible technical solution with the information provided. This position will be responsible for selling both Network and Application Resiliency solutions as well as Cybersecurity solutions. Reporting to the Regional Director, this role requires significant interaction and consultation with customers and must have a solid understanding of the sales cycle and working with the Sales teams throughout the process.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering or equivalent
5 + years as a pre-sales engineer, Network Architect, Application Engineer or in a pre-sales technical support role.
Experience and demonstrated working with customers to understand their technical challenges and requirements and to have effectively proposed desired solutions.
Proven pre-sales record of success and achievement for themselves and their team.
Strong Networking and Application background desired along with a working knowledge of Linux/Windows operating systems.
Cultural familiarity with and experience in doing business within the Region is critical.
Technical skills that relate to Cisco routing, switching, gateways and applications (must)
TCP/IP, SNMP, Netflow, BGP, VoIP
Various topologies, LAN, WAN (MPLS, Frame, ATM)
Trend analysis concepts
Security concepts
Network infrastructure concepts
Network General (Sniffer) knowledge
Network performance management
Fault/Alert management concepts
Operating systems (Linux, NT)
SDN/NFV
Virtualization
Public/Private Cloud

Nice To Haves

HP/OV, IBM Tivoli, EMC SMARTS, ArcSight a plus
nGenius product experience is an advantage
Certification CCNA, CCNP, CCIE a plus

Responsibilities

Work closely with the Account Manager(s) and Regional Director to develop business and technical strategies that can help ensure the best chance to win business.
Investigate the prospect’s needs and assist in developing a strategy to win business.
Assist the Sales Teams in making tactical decisions regarding the sale.
Identify compelling events or specific business problems and offer attractive solutions to the client.
Provide specialized technical support to the prospect/customer using NETSCOUT’s ‘best practices’ techniques along with other available resources provided to the Sales Engineering group.
Account responsibility for all lead technical activities.
Build relationships across customer's IT silos to document their infrastructure and understand their challenges and seek out potential projects.
Directly assist Sales teams in achieving financial targets via the sales process and assisting sales in accurately assessing and forecasting opportunities.
Create and deliver PoCs, manage competitive Bakeoffs, prepare for and run initial and subsequent onsite presentations or host remote presentations using WebEx.
Perform canned or live product demonstrations of system capabilities and benefits for customer meetings.
Lead whiteboard discussions, etc. to resellers, integrators, etc.
Work with users on a regular basis, explore scenarios in which the system is being used and discover new upsell opportunities by understanding the user’s needs.
Build and maintain a technical account.