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Director, Sales Engineering
Location
California
Posted
127 days ago
Salary
$268.8K - $336K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Sales Engineering
Cohesity
• Present Cohesity technology to customer technical leaders/experts • Conduct discovery workshops with customers • Develop high-level architectural alternatives and design plans • Help plan and conduct technical demos and Proof of Concepts (POCs) • Provide technical information for RFPs/RFIs • Provide technical review for all account team proposals • Liaison with Product Management and Engineering • Act as technical point of escalation for architectural and design decisions
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 15 + years of experience
- Experience in IT
- Storage, Backup, Virtualization, Linux CLI
- Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance
- Database Protection and Recovery
- Distributed Systems
- Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Layer 2 Networking and Firewalls
- Scripting / Automation
- Visio or equivalent application
- Excellent communication and project-related skills
- Strong verbal communication/presentation skills
- Strong written skills
- Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills
- Strong collaboration skills
- Ability to manage projects and drive to a deadline
Benefits
- Health and wellness benefits
- Vacation
- Paid holidays and refresh days
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life and disability insurance coverages
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