Senior Sales Engineer - IP network

How You Will Contribute: 

Reporting to Senior Manager - Sales Engineering, your role will be a strategic, customer-facing,  Routing and Switching Consulting Systems Engineer supporting European Service Provider customers to define and implement next-generation networks based on the company’s Routing and  Switching portfolio. 

You will be accountable for defining, developing and presenting Routing and Switching solutions with key customers and partners as well as the broader Sales/SE community. As a member of the  Sales Engineering team, the candidate will work directly with the account teams to define strategy,  solutions, and perform in-depth feature analysis required for success, including driving and tracking the features to ensure continued focus. 

You will play a key role, interfacing with customers at all stages, acting as a primary voice for the company as it relates to Routing and Switching solutions and their value. Important parts of your role will be to support RFx responses, lead technical tasks (ie lab trials), and work with technical leads to guide them through the operation of the company equipment. 

This is a highly interactive role, requiring interaction with many organizations within the company, including sales and sales engineering teams, as well as corporate entities such as Product Line Management,  R&D, CTO and Professional Services. 

You’ll play an important role in relation to knowledge transfer, ensuring the continuous upskilling of the sales teams on technical and commercial solutions. You will actively transfer knowledge to local sales and sales/systems engineering resources to build increasing fluency in architectural solutions, as opposed to product-based solutions, and business value in addition to technical differentiation. 

Some of the important tasks for this role include 

• Supporting complex architectural engagements with the company's customers, involving all relevant products and technologies within our client’s portfolio while increasing knowledge and understanding of solution architectures across the broader sales and system/sales engineering community. 

• Working alongside other engineering/design resources to specify the best solution for a given opportunity and support PLM requests for key roadmap requirements to support business opportunities. 

• Playing an active role in supporting bid responses, as well as technical presentations,  demos, and proofs of concept throughout a sales cycle.

• Driving advanced architecture discussions that incorporate Routing, Carrier Ethernet, Adaptive IP, Network Management, SDN/NFV/Cloud, and virtualization.

• Working directly with customer technical leads to guide them through provisioning our client routers and switches and get them comfortable with the company SAOS CLI and NMS  operations of our client products.

• Ensuring that any customer-specific activities are tracked through Salesforce while concurrently developing and building effective relationships with key customer stakeholders. 

• Influencing PLM in the development of new capabilities to support architectures relevant to customers in the region. 

• Assisting in tracking of product deliverables and communicating issues to regional teams 

• 25%-30% travel required 

The ideal candidate: 

• Expert-level knowledge of multi-layer network architectures (IP, Ethernet, MPLS) and Core  Routing/Switching technologies and protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, IGRP,G.8032, MPLS-TP,  802.1ag, etc) is required 

• Expert in architecting complex IP and Carrier Ethernet Networks 

• Detailed understanding of Carrier Network deployments and architectures 

• Detailed understanding of Service Provider customer environments 

• Hands-on systems-level understanding and an ability to learn and apply new concepts and  technologies quickly 

• Understanding of backbone long-haul transport, metro DWDM, optical evolution and  packet transport a plus 

• Proficiency in English and German and/or Polish is a must. 

• Time management skills; ability to plan, prioritize, execute & follow-up within a timely  manner 

• Flexible, able to handle multiple tasks with minimal supervision 

• Ability to build strong customer relationships and support an overall sales strategy 

• Expert technical expertise and desire to learn new technologies 

• Needs to have demonstrated leadership in the management of ongoing activities such as RFP  activity, trials and product acceptance 

• Experience of strategic collaboration between Engineering, Account Management,  Commercial Management and PLM

• Technical Degree: BS in Engineering or Computer Science or relevant experience such as  industry/vendor certifications 

• In-depth knowledge of multilayer networking systems 

• 7+ years of telecommunication industry experience 

• Effective communicator (executive presence, synthesized messaging (+) strong  written/verbal/visual/video/social skills)