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Job Summary:
NETSCOUT is a leading company dedicated to protecting the connected world from cyberattacks and performance disruptions. They are seeking a Sales Engineer to provide pre-sales technical support and presentations to enterprise customers, helping to achieve revenue goals and develop business strategies.
Responsibilities:
• The Sales Engineer must be able to 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. This includes building relationships across customer's IT silos to document their infrastructure and understand their challenges and seek out potential projects.
• The Sales Engineer will directly assist Sales teams in achieving financial targets via the sales process and assisting sales in accurately assessing and forecasting opportunities.
• Must be able to create and deliver PoCs, manage competitive Bakeoffs, prepare for and run initial and subsequent onsite presentations or host remote presentations using WebEx or Meeting Place, ability to perform canned or live product demonstrations of system capabilities and benefits for customer meeting, show ability to lead whiteboard discussions, etc., to best present NETSCOUT solutions in the best possible light for customers, 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.
• Adapt to new situations and opportunities that may include multiple Integrators on a common customer network.
• Travel required within the assigned territory and within the Region estimated at 40 - 50% within the territory.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent
• 7 years as a pre-sales engineer, Network Engineer, Application Engineer or in a pre-sales technical support role.
• Minimum 5 year’s experience in Network Observability and or Network Security
• Experience and demonstrated working with Enterprise 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
• Technical skills that relate to TCP/IP, SNMP, Netflow, VoIP
• Technical skills that relate to various topologies, LAN, WAN (MPLS, Frame, ATM)
• Technical skills that relate to trend analysis concepts
• Technical skills that relate to network security concepts
• Technical skills that relate to network infrastructure concepts
• Technical skills that relate to network general (Sniffer) knowledge
• Technical skills that relate to network performance management
• Technical skills that relate to fault/alert management concepts
• Technical skills that relate to cyber security concepts
• Technical skills that relate to DDOS knowledge
• Technical skills that relate to Splunk, Service Now, HP/OV, IBM Tivoli, EMC SMARTS, ArcSight
• Technical skills that relate to AI Operations, SOC experience
• Technical skills that relate to nGenius product experience
• Technical skills that relate to operating systems (Linux, NT)
• Certification CCNA, CCNP, CCIE
• Experience responding to or creating RFI or RFPs
• Experience in having conducted or participated in security audits
• Must have attended formal sales training that teaches pre sales techniques.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional organization, time management skills and multi-tasking skills.
• Self-motivated and constantly looking for ways to improve both product and process.
Preferred:
• MBA preferred
• Formal presentation training
Company:
We provide the data that drives observability, fortifies cybersecurity, and keeps the world's most essential organizations resilient against disruptions of any kind. Founded in 1984, the company is headquartered in Westford, MA, US, , with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.