Customer Success Engineer

NetApp, Inc.; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud data service provider located in County Cork, Ireland is seeking a Customer Success Engineer (CSE). The CSE will serve as a trusted technical advisor, responsible for customer engagement and ensuring quality cloud solutions. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in cloud environments and strong project management skills. The position embraces hybrid work, offering flexibility and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Paid volunteer time off

Comprehensive medical and dental plans

Educational assistance programs

Financial savings programs

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise cloud software experience is required.
• 5+ years in customer facing roles like CSM or CSE.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.
• Experience in storage administration is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor in the account team.
• Develop foundational relationships with key customer personas.
• Proactively define customer success plans and milestones.
• Monitor usage trends to identify optimization opportunities.

Skills

Customer relationship & engagement

Proactive Project delivery alignment

Technical Evangelization

Account Management

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science

5 years of experience in customer facing roles

AWS Cloud Practitioner certification

In-depth knowledge of Public/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Tools

AWS

Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)

Clustered Data ONTAP

Job description

Job Summary

As customers today increasingly invest and engage in more flexible consumption models, Customer Success plays an increasingly critical role in helping customers shorten the time to value in achieving business outcomes. The Cloud Consumption Customer Success organization plays a critical role with NetApp’s large, strategic cloud customers, leading them through the launch, migrate, optimize, and scale phases of their critical cloud storage and data services adoption journey (across our hyper-scaler led first party and NetApp labeled marketplace products

As a Customer Success Engineer (CSE), on our Cloud Consumption Customer Success organization, your responsibilities include:

• You are the trusted technical advisor in our account team and a strategic partner to our customers. You are responsible for execution against our customer’s commitment with NetApp, including orchestration of cross-functional programs in delivering customer value and business outcomes. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, grow and leverage your technical expertise in cloud storage solutions and deepen your cloud infrastructure and industry expertise.
• You will be engaged in developing foundational relationship with key customer personas and technical professionals to enable high quality & performance of IT workloads using the partnership with account team leaders, Global SI, Hyper-scaler ecosystem partners. You will be proactively defining customer success plans, success milestones and orchestrating the same. You will help align consumption strategies to the customer’s business and implementation priorities.
• You will utilize your customer engagement, evangelization, cloud adoption technical expertise and expectation management skills to provide the highest personalized and proactive enterprise-class customer success experience.

Job Requirements

Customer relationship & engagement: Create impactful relationships internally and externally. You will become intimately acquainted with the customer’s business requirements, technical needs, solutions, environment, and service delivery; Work with Customer’s stakeholders to understand and translate customer business requirements into technical solutions and an executable migration plan; accelerate production level consumption through delivery orchestration by driving solution and operational health for prominent, challenging, and complex customer organizations across various segments.

Proactive Project delivery alignment: Provide guidance and best practices to support the development of a cloud adoption and consumption success plan; deliver NetApp technical adoption and consumption acceleration activities (enablement sessions, best practices) based on customer’s use case and workload defined; ensure the customer is current on technology and ready to move to cloud; monitor usage trends and customer health to proactively identify challenges and/or optimization opportunities.

Account Management: Work with account in a pod operating model, with the highest degree of partnership with common goal in driving consumption; lead a monthly account pod review session to drive alignment on consumption goals, milestones, and customer engagement strategies; proactively execute risk mitigation activities as you identify adoption and consumption goal risks; collaborate with customers & hyper-scaler counterparts and identify growth opportunities.

Technical Evangelization: Leverage all technical expertise and enablement to act as a technology advisor and visionary, help connect business to technology, also help customers connect with product management experts; share new features and roadmap; identify adoption blockers and position relevant support & success bundles, professional services, partners and NLS (NetApp Learning Services) offerings.

Education

• 5+years of enterprise cloud software experience is required.
• 5+ years of experience in customer facing roles like CSM/CSE/CSA or solutions consultant or professional services delivery manager or Network administrator.
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information technology or a related field is desired.
• In-depth knowledge of Public/Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure and AWS.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Cloud Solution Architect and Storage Badge Certifications are highly desired.
• A strong understanding of the storage industry, private and public cloud environments, virtualization, and cloud management stacks is important.
• Prior experience in storage administration including Clustered Data ONTAP and Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is highly desired.
• Knowledge of data center operations and cloud security is desired.
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer-facing environment.
• Experience demonstrating a significant level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell NetApp Cloud products and services is desired.
• Excellence in project management and analytical thinking is required as well as excellent communication and executive presence.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.

Why NetApp?

In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist. No one knows how to elevate the world's biggest clouds like NetApp. We are data-driven and empowered to innovate. Trust, integrity, and teamwork all combine to make a difference for our customers, partners, and communities.

We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.