Solutions/Sales Engineer

CTERA Networks, a rapidly growing startup in the cloud storage space, is seeking a talented Solutions/Sales Engineer to support pre-sales activities in the Central West region of the United States. We are looking for a highly skilled and technically proficient team player with extensive sales experience who is passionate about delivering innovative storage solutions to Fortune 500 enterprises across North America.

• 5+ years’ experience as a Sales Engineer in the storage and or cloud industries
• Strong presentation and technical analysis skills
• Up to 50% travel with some overnight stays
• Storage experience – network attached storage (NAS), file-systems, object storage. Protocols: CIFS/SMB, NFS. Background in deploying, securing and managing file servers, backup & archiving software’s.
• Cloud or virtualization experience – 2+ years’ experience in VMware (Datacenter Virtualization Certification) or AWS / Azure Certified Solution Architect
• Networking / Firewall experience – Proven knowledge of the TCP/IP stack and the following protocols: HTTP, TLS, DNS, LDAP and SAML v2. Experience in using network troubleshooting tools such as WireShark.
• Operating systems – Microsoft Windows Desktop and Server Platforms (Roles: ADDS & DNS) and Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)
• Practical experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms
• Documentation experience to edit guides, sales presentations, network, configuration diagrams and asset management

• Provide product, service, or equipment technical and engineering information by answering questions and requests
• Provide technical sales support throughout the sales cycle. This entails qualifying opportunities, selling the solution on its technical merits, replying to RFI’s and RFP’s, establishing the proposed solution design, sizing the solution and more
• Establish and maintain personal rapport and relationship with customers and partners
• Use professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
• Support the sales teams by delivering technical presentations explaining our products & services to customers and prospective clients
• Collaborate with sales teams to understand the customer requirements and provide technical-sales support
• Conduct proof of concepts (POC’s) with a clearly written and communicated scope of work (SOW) and success criteria’s.
• Transfer knowledge to customers & partners by delivering demos and conducting hands-on training sessions
• Collect and document product feedback and requests for enhancements (RFE’s) for CTERA’s Product Management team
• Submits orders by conferring with technical support staff