Senior System Engineer

Veeam; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Systems Engineer, where you'll engage with partners and end users to translate business needs into technical solutions. This role offers the chance to work closely with field sales teams, delivering presentations and managing pre-sales activities for innovative data protection solutions. With opportunities for growth and travel across the UK and Ireland, you'll be at the forefront of IT, helping organizations achieve resilience through cutting-edge technology. If you're a self-starter with a passion for technology, this is your chance to shine.

Qualifications

• Experience in a pre-sales role with Veeam solutions is essential.
• Strong knowledge of virtualization and public cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Engage with end users and partners to translate business objectives into technical requirements.
• Manage the technical evaluation stage of the sales process for Veeam solutions.

Skills

Pre-sales experience in IT

Virtualization technologies (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV)

Public clouds (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

Communication skills

Self-starter

Education

VMCE certification

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Veeam Systems Engineer

Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data protection and ransomware recovery, is on a mission to empower every organization to not just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward.

With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud.

The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are protected and always available.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running.

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.

This role requires travel within the region of responsibility, which for this position is London and the south.

Job Functions

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

Knowledge & Requirements

• 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.
• Deep experience with virtualization technologies (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), and associated technologies (SANs, hyper-converged storage, networking).
• Working knowledge of public clouds (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Knowledge of key SaaS platforms such as Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable presenting to groups, both remotely and in person.
• Availability to travel across UK & Ireland.
• A self-starter with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly.

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 law. All your information will be kept confidential.

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