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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Sales Engineer
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2008-02-11
Hello,
We are an Executive Search firm focusing on Information Technology positions
and we have contacted you in the past regarding opportunities. We are
currently searching for a security Pre-Sales Engineer.
Our client, who is a leading provider of Information Security software and
solutions, is seeking a Pre-Sales Engineer to support sales in the Southeast
region. Candidates should be within one hour of a major airport, preferably
in Atlanta, Florida, Virginia.
This position requires up to 70% regional travel.
All of our current searches are displayed @ www.jpatrick.com. Please apply
through www.jpatrick.com, or simply reply to this email with an attached
document of your updated resume and current compensation.
The job descriptions for these positions appear below. Please feel free to
distribute this listing.
Thanks,
Jon
-- Jonathan Doran
J. Patrick & Associates
18 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10001
P (212) 785-0236
F (212) 964-9645
www.jpatrick.com
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Pre-Sales Engineer
Virtual Office Southeast, USA
Our client, a leading provider of Information Security software and
solutions, is seeking a Pre-Sales Engineer to support sales in the Southeast
region. Candidates should be within one hour of a major airport, preferably
in Atlanta, Florida, Viriginia.
This position requires up to 70% regional travel.
As a Pre-Sales Engineer you will work closely with the Regional Account
Manager and Inside Sales Manager to grow and develop both direct to end-user
and partner opportunities throughout the designated region in the United
States. The Pre-Sales Engineer will provide pre sales services including
system engineering, technical product presentations, training,
troubleshooting and technical account management.
Responsibilities:
• Provide pre and post-sales technical support on behalf of both end
user
and partner accounts
• Conduct product demonstrations and technical overviews in support of
industry trade shows, Webinars, and on site customer opportunities.
• Conduct customer driven interactive whiteboard discussions, designed
to
capture and understand each customer’s unique security needs and concerns.
Act as a technical resource on Sales calls on issues such as product
specifications, features, functionality and integration along with on site
evaluation and installation support
• Interface with Marketing and Engineering as a customer advocate for
features and functionality designed to enhance and strengthen existing and
future product offerings
Essential Requirements:
• Willingness to travel --- 70% (three to four days a week)
• Proficient in UNIX, Linux, Network Security, and Security Devices
• Minimum of 5 years of successful pre-sales, post sales, solution
selling, technical consulting or systems engineering experience in the
network and systems security industry
• Histories of working in high energy, successful, start up environment.
Demonstrate a drive to succeed, high level of motivation, and able to work
independently as well as collaboratively with customer technologists and
other technical personnel within the organization
• Proven track record of developing and managing technical relationships
with prospects and customers throughout the sales cycle
• Strong analytical, written and oral skills with attention to detail in
addition excellent organizational, customer service, communication, and
presentation skills in front of clients are a must.
• Possess a strong working knowledge of operating systems (i.e.: Windows
(9x, Me, 2K XP), UNIX, RedHat Linux) and RDBMS Systems such as Oracle, MYSQL
and MS SQL).
• Should be comfortable with Oracle or any RDBMS, and possess the
ability
to work with regular expressions, Shell & XML scripting.
• Experience in Firewall, Intrusion Prevention, VPN, and other security
focused technologies. Understanding of both networking and application
related protocol & technologies
• Experience selling into industries with regulatory compliance related
to GLBA, HIPPA, PCI DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley
• CISSP, GIAC CISM certifications preferred.
• Must be self-driven.
CONTACT
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Please upload a resume @ www.jpatrick.com and apply to this position:
Pre-Sales Engineer
Job ID: 432122
J. Patrick & Associates
Jonathan Doran
Executive Recruiter
jon@jpatrick.com
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