Zerto Jobs – Pre-Sales Engineer

Sales Engineer – Boston, MA

As a member of our Zerto Sales Engineering team, you will provide technical support to qualified prospects who are working to evaluate and potentially deploy Zerto solutions and related tools.
Responsibilities

• Conduct and facilitate product demonstrations through WebEx
• Conference calls discussing prospective business fit with Zerto software products
• General support of sales team from a technical aspect to drive team based selling
• Installations of software trials and working with the customers and the account executive to ensure that the customer purchases the software following the trial.
• Support pre & post sales issues including but not limited to:
  • Validating and supporting agreed upon ‘proof of concept’ with prospect
  • Providing written & oral instruction on the usage of the products
  • Recommending best practices for different customer environments
  • Supporting/training Partners and customers
  • Attending trade shows as needed
• Some on-site customer visits with limited travel (majority of time will be in the Boston, MA office.)
• Interacting with Architecture team to ensure the product fills customer requirements and communicate these requirements and findings to the product management team

Requirements

• Experience with VMware products/infrastructure – particularly the vSphere family
• Understanding of storage concepts, architecture and storage platforms (i.e. SAN/NAS/DAS)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• The ability to explain technical solutions and concepts to non-technical people
• Good practical understanding of datacenter architecture
• Previous experience in a Pre-Sales Engineering position.
• BA/BS, preferably in a Computer related field
• Working knowledge of Microsoft (Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003), plus x86 platforms, devices, and networking

Highly Preferred Skills

• Experience in working with development organizations in a new product introductions role
• Knowledge or familiarity of real-life IT environments
• Experience in administration of SAN environments
• Technical certifications (VCP, MCSE, CCNA, etc.)
• UNIX kernel diagnostics/debugging
• Experience with operation and administration of Windows Server 2008 and/or Windows Server 2003 systems
• Decent practical working with and administration of Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or DB2 databases
• Strong Linux or UNIX administration skills & familiarity with the installation and configuration of Linux or UNIX operating systems & setup and operation of TCP/IP networking on Linux or UNIX systems
• Enterprise level administration, recovery, and configuration
• Ability to test and setup customer like computing environments for demo/troubleshooting purposes
• Understanding of computer and networking hardware
• Network routing, configuration, etc.

We Offer

• Modern, energetic working environment
• Opportunities for professional growth and promotion – Zerto employees who demonstrate high performance and commitment will have the opportunity for career development and advancement.
• Salary ranges depending on skills and expertise – with base salary + bonus for achieving goals.
• We offer a competitive health plan, 401k, and stock options.