Sales System Engineer (VCSP)

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 vacation days + volunteer days

Private medical/dental/vision

Life insurance with protection

Income protection

Pension plan with employer match

Worldwide travel insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Learning resources & events

Job summary

Veeam is seeking a Systems Engineer (pre-sales) to work with field sales, partners, and end users across the UK and Ireland. You will translate business objectives into technical requirements and provide demonstrations and POCs to drive the adoption of Veeam solutions.

The role requires virtualization expertise (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), cloud familiarity (AWS, Azure, GCP), and strong communication skills. Travel within the region up to 50% is expected.

Qualifications

• Pre-sales IT experience required.

Responsibilities

• Engage with end users and partners to translate business objectives into technical requirements.
• Deliver presentations and demonstrations to varied levels of decision makers, virtually or in person.
• Lead the technical evaluation stage as main advisor for Veeam solutions.
• Provide pre-sales assistance (POCs, Hands-on Labs, Bootcamps).
• Record and maintain CRM activities (Salesforce).
• Collaborate with Veeam resellers on training and meetings.
• Support lead generation events, webinars, and user groups.
• Provide customer feedback to Product Development and Engineering.
• Collaborate across teams on strategic initiatives (e.g., ROI calculators).

Skills

Pre-sales IT experience

Veeam solutions deployment

VMCE/VMCA advantageous

Virtualization knowledge

Public cloud knowledge

Office 365 and Salesforce

Communication skills

Public speaking

UK & Ireland travel

Self-starter

Adaptability in fast-paced env

Tools

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Hyper-V

Nutanix AHV

SANs & storage

Networking

Amazon AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Office 365

Salesforce

Job description

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.

About the role

At Veeam, Systems Engineers work closely with field sales teams and help to evangelize our product offerings to our partners, resellers and end users. Grow along with Veeam while gaining valuable experience in the hottest area within IT today. These positions require travel within the region of responsibility up to 50% of the time.

What you’ll do

• Engage with end users and Veeam partners to establish and translate business objectives into technical requirements.
• Create content and deliver presentation and demonstrations to varying numbers and levels of decision makers, virtually and in person.
• Manage the technical evaluation stage of the sales process as a main technical advisor for Veeam solutions.
• Providing pre-sales assistance to customers as they evaluate Veeam software (i.e. POCs, Hands-on Labs, Bootcamps).
• Record and maintain accurate and up-to-date details of customer and partner engagement activities on the CRM platform (Salesforce)
• Working closely with Veeam’s value-added resellers on training, joint meetings and building relationships.
• Support lead generation activities such as events, webinars, user groups, etc.
• Working closely with Veeam Product Development and Engineering to provide customer feedback.
• Active participation and collaboration with cross functional teams on various strategic initiatives that increases efficiencies and add long term value to the company (i.e. TCO & ROI calculators, hands-on-labs).

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrable experience working in a pre‑sales role in IT.
• Prior experience using or deploying Veeam solutions.
• VMCE certification would be very advantageous; all SEs can obtain VMCE and VMCA certifications once in the role.
• Have deep experience with virtualization technologies (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Nutanix AHV), and associated technologies (SANs, hyper-converged storage, networking).
• Have a working knowledge of public clouds (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Have a working knowledge of key SaaS platforms such as Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce.
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Be comfortable presenting to groups, both remotely and in person.
• Be available to travel across UK & Ireland.
• Be a self‑starter with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Be comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly.

What you’ll get

• 25 paid vacation days, plus 4 extra global VeeaMe Days for self‑care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
• Private medical, dental, and vision insurance with dependent enrolment
• Life insurance with enhanced coverage and global 24/7 protection
• Income protection after 26 weeks, covering a portion of salary
• Defined contribution pension plan with employer match
• Worldwide travel insurance for business and leisure, with option to enroll dependents
• Employee Assistance Program with therapy, legal, and financial support, plus online GP services and wellbeing programs
• Opportunities to learn and grow through on‑demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning

Please note: If an applicant is permanently located outside of the United Kingdom, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application for this position.

Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. All your information will be kept confidential.

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