{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"964c757dc2cd32d979facf21","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/964c757dc2cd32d979facf21","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/964c757dc2cd32d979facf21","title":"Sales Engineer","description":"Location: Chicago\nVirtual Iron Software, Inc. is an award winning software startup, well-funded by top tier investors. We were recently named one of 10 Hot Start-Ups to watch by Network World magazine. Key industry analysts from firms including IDC, Gartner and Illuminata have praised Virtual Iron and its products. The company has a focused, collaborative, and high-energy environment, founded by well-respected industry veterans where working hard, having fun and building a great company are important. Virtual Iron has a strong team of people that believe virtualization can transform the data center and offer great business value to our customers both now and in the future. We are committed to expanding our team with highly motivated, talented and creative individuals.\n\nWe offer highly competitive compensation packages and comprehensive benefits. Most of our benefits begin upon your date of hire with Virtual Iron Software.\n\nWe are seeking talented, aggressive and highly-motivated individuals to provide support to our fast-growing Enterprise Sales team in selling our data center virtualization and management software solutions. If you’re an over-achiever, driven by new business success, and you've got what it takes to grow and support a new business initiative, then we want to speak with you.\n\nThe right candidate will play a key role in capturing and supporting Enterprise customers by providing pre-sales technical support to the Sales team. Duties will include:\nProvide sales support through advanced technical support related to design validation, customer trials, demos and application testing/staging.\nCreate technical designs for customers that meet customer requirements and help solve customer business or technology problems.\nDeliver technical and sales oriented presentations to customer’s technical staff and senior management.\nBuild and maintain relationships with technical decision makers and influencers in your account base.\nQualifications:\nExperienced pre-sales engineer with the ability to obtain virtualization knowledge and skills quickly.\nExperience working with large enterprise software sales is mandatory.\nDemonstrated ability to support new enterprise customers\nExperience with:\nUnix/Linux Servers (Linux certification(s) a plus)\nSAN/NAS storage and switches (EMC,IBM,Brocade,McDATA)\nSOA & Application Servers (WebSphere,BEA WebLogic,JBoss)\nEnterprise Software (SAP,Peoplesoft,Tibco)\nRelational Databases (DB2,MySQL,Oracle)\nProgramming or scripting in Java,Python,Perl\nVirtualization products\nData Center Management Products\nTechnical acumen with ability to present and sell technology products in a business context\nWillingness and desire to travel extensively in support of sales activities and team success\nInterested and qualified candidates, please submit your resume via e-mail to jobs at virtualiron.com. 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