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Job Summary: As a Systems Engineer in NetApp's Sales function, you are responsible for providing pre-sales and post-sales support for selling NetApp's Products and Professional Services to existing and potential customers. You will utilize your excellent technical and relationship building skills in working with vendors, partners and sales to ensure that optimum systems solutions are provided to customers. In this position your overall focus areas will be in supporting and developing processes and systems for quick and thorough responses to customer RFP's, provide systems configuration recommendations, and apply your background and experience to deliver solutions to technical problems. Essential Functions: The essential responsibilities of the Systems Engineers are to work directly with customers in pre-sales and post sales situations, and to work effectively across functions with other NetApp employees in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Development areas. Specific responsibilities include: - Identify customer needs and requirements. - Define all of the elements of a customer's technical computing environment. - Answer customer questions. - Provide technical support to current customer and 'try-and-buy' test projects. - Define customer acceptance criteria for 'try-and-buy' evaluation projects. - Pick up and deliver NetApp evaluation test system to customer site. - Work with Sales to respond to RFP's. - Attend customer calls with the Sales Representative. - Provide technical consultation and disseminate product information to the sales team. Requirements: - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Good interpersonal communication and customer service skills are needed in order work successfully with prospects, customers, and cross functional teams to meet performance goals. - Account management and project management experience. - Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer facing environment. - Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices. - Creative approach to problem solving. - Travel to the prospective customer's sites as necessary Responsibility and Interaction: Responsibility: - As a seasoned, experienced professional, with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures, this individual will apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving a wide range of issues in imaginative and practical ways. - Is responsible for a specific geographical install base and medium to large accounts. - May have own account responsibility or work on a team. Interaction: - This individual effectively works with senior internal personnel within the function, some employees in other functions that support the sales effort, and has direct customer contact. - Little management direction is provided on day to day work; general instructions are given on new assignments; as well as review of activities and priorities. - The ideal candidate is a subject matter expert and contributes proactively to sales team efforts and positively influences decisions. May also act as a team leader and main decision maker for team projects. Education & Experience: - 5 to 8 years of experience is preferred. - A Bachelor of Arts or Sciences Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science; or equivalent is required. - Experience which demonstrates a strong level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell NetApp products and services is required. NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Our dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting your data, business, and reputation. We bring together the industry's best partners and technology to deliver services that help you maximize what you are getting from your infrastructure. Our collaborative approach, working as one team with one goal, means that you get a solution that is just right for you - on time and on budget. To support your global business, we provide highly-responsive support in local languages. From London to Austin, from Bangalore to Tokyo, we’ll work with you to solve your problems and help you reach your goals. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. To learn more about NetApp employee benefits go to: http://www.netapp.com/jobs/benefits.html NetApp is an equal opportunity employer. How to apply:  DO NOT use the Apply Online button. Please copy and paste the following link into your browser address bar: http://netapp.contacthr.com/24077092 .auf{position:absolute;clip:rect(475px,auto,auto,475px);} small payday loans and secure !

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