Sales Engineer
We are seeking a Sales/Solutions Engineer for immediate hire. The
successful candidate must be comfortable both in a highly technical
pre-sales environment, designing an implementation with a customer, and
supporting them post-deployment.
Responsibilities include:
• Provide intensive pre- and post-sales technical consulting to
prospective customers and channel partners
• Participating in conference calls and customer visits
• Make technical designs and presentations
• Mastering technical customer grilling over trivia of product
implementation, and storage/network architecture
• Oversee the customer proposal process to ensuring the solution and
recommendations address all customer requirements.
• Support Account Management.
• Investigate new solution areas for product extensions
• Train customers to master the products & fit them into their OSS
• Design and run Beta evaluations (with attendant bugs!) while
maintaining a professional and productive manner
• Ability to perform technical qualification
Requirements
• 7+ years experience in a pre-sales role within the local territory
• Ability to successfully go complete sales presentations on one’s own.
• Willing to travel, work odd hours, and be very available.
• Excellent business writing and presentation skills.
• Instinctive understanding of what it is to give service
• BS/BA in relevant field (CS, EE, MIS)
• Resides in the targeted geography w/local relationships w/both
customers and key local resellers
• Location:
Technical Requirements
• Must have very strong networking, switching, and routing background
(L2 - 3). In-depth TCP/IP knowledge, network design experience
• Hands on troubleshooting, configuration and implementation
• Ability to program scripts (eg. Perl, Python, VB)
• Cisco IOS familiarity, ability to quickly understand enterprise
network topologies and constraints. Completely understand how to configure
networking under both UNIX and NT.
• Applications experience – Microsoft, CIFS, MAPI, NFS etc.
• CCIE a plus
Riverbed Technology, Inc. is a San Francisco Company with excellent
salary, options and benefits. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer
M/F/D/V
www.riverbed.com
Please direct your responses to: erubinstein@riverbed.com