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Pre-sales engineer/Systems Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities:
Contributing to the sales process by doing what it takes to close the sale from a technical point of view. This includes:

* Assisting the customer by designing DNF technical solutions to his storage needs.
* Working closely with Sales Teams to determine the best configurations of the best products for the opportunity.
* Technical solutions-oriented proposal writing.
* Presenting product features/benefits to a customer audience of varying technical literacy.
* Initial installation of storage solutions at customer sites.
* Initial phase customer hand-holding and telephone support.
* Industry product evangelizing through trade show product demonstration and technical paper presentations.

Requirements:

* 2-4 years of solid experience in the client-server computing industry
* 2+ years of system administration on various RISC UNIX, and NT platforms.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and outgoing demeanor allowing the candidate to camouflage his/her Technical Guru status when need be.
* Experience gained in the sales side of a vendor environment would help the candidate to relate to an aggressive, goal-oriented sales force on their own terms.
* Willingness to travel 30 – 40 % of the time
* Excellent organizational and time-management skills.

Desired:

* BS in an engineering discipline
* Legato Software Experience a plus