Sales Engineer
Team Description & Purpose of Role
Sales and marketing Team France
Job Responsibilties
• Consultation with customers on the design and implementation of their WAN network, hosting, security and media solutions.
• Leveraging a sound technical skill set, the SE will be able to build credible relationships with clients in support of the Sales team.
• Where necessary the SE will be expected to assemble and lead a bid team in support of specified sales opportunities.
• Support Service delivery in liaising with the customer and making sure that all technical required information is correctly provided for the implementation of the service in respect to the committed service delivery date.
• Operate as an internal customer to the Product Management group making sure that they are commercially and technically competitive.
• From a technical standpoint, support channel marketing, marcoms and sales in focused sales campaigns.
• Support Sales in the development of technical proposals, presentations and solutions.
• Produce appropriate technical solution documentation and report regularly to management on the life cycle of all projects, working closely with other areas of the Interoute organisation. Thereafter, making recommendations to management in respect of the appropriate technical path for the development of the client relationship.
Experience Required
• Hosting services (VMware, Linux, Windows) including storage (NAS, SAN, DAS)
• Security services: Firewall Cisco ASA, IPS/IDS, web content filtering
• LAN/WAN Technologies: Ethernet, MPLS, Routing protocol, QoS, WAN acceleration.
• Colocation: Power, Airco, Facilities, add. Services
• Disaster recovery/business continuity technologies/solutions.
• Project management basics
• University / engineering degree
• 5 years experience
Person Specification
• A team player
• Open mind to different approaches to service development and deployment
• Able to work under pressure and on own initiative
• Able to resolve problems quickly and accurately
• Positive and approachable
• Able to demonstrate a high level of trustworthiness
Excellent command of English written and oral.
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