Senior System Engineer

Veeam; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Veeam, a leader in data resilience, is hiring a Systems Engineer in the UK. The role involves engaging with clients to translate business needs into technical solutions, delivering presentations, and providing pre-sales assistance. Candidates should have extensive IT pre-sales experience and knowledge of virtualization and public clouds.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a pre-sales role in IT.
• Prior experience with Veeam solutions.
• Deep experience with virtualization technologies.
• Working knowledge of public clouds.
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Engage with end users to translate business objectives into technical requirements.
• Create content and deliver presentations and demonstrations.
• Manage technical evaluations as a main technical advisor.
• Provide pre-sales assistance for Veeam software.
• Record details of customer engagement activities on Salesforce.
• Work with value-added resellers on training and relationships.
• Collaborate with Product Development for customer feedback.
• Participate in cross-functional strategic initiatives.

Skills

Pre-sales experience in IT

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Hyper-V

Nutanix AHV

Public clouds knowledge

Salesforce

Self-starter ability

Education

VMCE certification

Job description

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Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes businesses should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Based in Seattle, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we move forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. The future of data resilience is here - go fearlessly forward with us.

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, which for this role 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, 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. Collaborate with Veeam Product Development and Engineering to provide customer feedback.
8. 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

1. Demonstrable experience working in a pre-sales role in IT.
2. Prior experience using or deploying Veeam solutions.
3. VMCE certification would be very advantageous; all SEs can obtain VMCE and VMCA certifications once in the role.
4. Deep experience with virtualization technologies (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), and associated technologies (SANs, hyper-converged storage, networking).
5. Working knowledge of public clouds (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
6. Working knowledge of key SaaS platforms such as Microsoft Office 365 and Salesforce.
7. A self-starter with the ability to learn new technologies quickly.
8. Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where roles and responsibilities change quickly.

Note: If the applicant is permanently located outside the United Kingdom, Veeam reserves the right to decline the application. Remote work is only possible for employees located in the UK.

Veeam Software is an equal opportunity employer and does not tolerate discrimination in any form. All your information will be kept confidential.

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