About the Role
Extreme Systems Engineer provides technology and product consulting, technical sales support for various account opportunities, and performs high-level and in-depth technical presentations for customers, prospects, and Extreme channel partners.
Responsibilities
- Provides technology and product consulting.
- Provides technical sales support for account opportunities.
- Performs high-level and in-depth technical presentations for customers, prospects, and channel partners.
- Supports RFI/RFP responses.
- Organizes and leads Proof of Concept activities.
- Designs solutions meeting customer requirements.
- Participates as a specialist on assigned virtual teams.
- Contributes to other team activities.
- Supports customer evaluations, demonstrations, and detailed design requirements.
Requirements
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Fluent in German and English.
- Strong, successful pre-sales engineering track record in the industry and territory in a similar position.
- Ability to work as part of customer project teams on design and PoC labs.
- Ability to set criteria for successful PoCs and overall solution designs.
- Tenacity and perseverance (customer advocate facing internally to Extreme).
- Ability to build, develop, and maintain a network of people at the customer/partner side independent of sales.
- Accepted as the trusted advisor.
- Willingness to assume a team-lead role for the account team when/if business requires additional resources.
- Experience working with partners is a plus for technical training on products.
- Major account experience is necessary.
- Experience in closing deals is necessary.
- Good general hands-on lab experience is required.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of future trends and market directions.
Skills
- Layer 2/3 switching
- IPv4/v6 routing concepts
- Overlay networking
- VPNs
- Wi-Fi operation and design
- Network security principles
- Cloud technologies
- Cloud-based network management platforms
- Compute and network virtualization principles
- Network management and orchestration software
- SD-WAN
- Automation scripting
- APIs
Location
- Domestic
- International
Work Type
- Full-time
- Flexible work model
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Extreme Networks certifications are desirable, but not mandatory
- Recognized industry certifications is a plus
Salary/Compensations
- OTE is on a 70/30 split and is based on qualifications and experience between 120-130K OTE.
Benefits
- Training resources for technical & personal development
- Newest top technology and equipment
- Subsidized Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Flexible work model
- Flexibility on taking time off
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Business Travel Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Life & Occupational Disability Insurance
About the Company
- Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions.
- We are a global leader with hubs in Europe, North America, South America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East.
- Extreme uses Cloud Management, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence to radically simplify and secure the Access Network.
- Our Cloud-Managed Wireless, Switching, Routing, and Security technologies provide unrivalled flexibility in deployment, management, and licensing.
- Working with pioneering Controller-less Wi-Fi and Cloud Management, Extreme delivers continuous innovation at Cloud-speed.
- Our innovations and global cloud footprint radically simplify Access Network operation for 30,000+ customers and 10+ million daily users.
